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From televised street protests to suburban shopping malls, it’s a shocking sight to see groups of ragged, longhaired hippies still prowling the American landscape. Once thought of as a temporary youth trend, these anti-societal, marijuana-loving civil liberation types have proven surprisingly resilient. Their hatred of Christian-American patriotism continues to be one of their most recognizable traits. As a new generation is indoctrinated into this lifestyle, the risk they pose to this nation’s foundation of morality is once again reaching a critical level.
The fact that a teenage fashion fad from the 1960s has survived this long is stunning. These are people who have managed to deny every positive cultural change of the last 50 years. Loathe to contribute to our domestic economy, they have long eschewed the acceptable consumerism so vital for our engines of growth despite the diversity of affordable products available to every citizen. They avoided the raw masculinity and progressive politics of the Reagan years. They turned their backs on the groundswell of Judeo-Christian faith that has dominated this country since the 80s. In post 9/11 era, they were one of the few holdouts against the flowering of pro-American nationalism so crucial in a time of terror and war. Tragically, they played the role of “useful idiots” for our enemies in Europe, the Middle East and even in China. They banged their drum circles outside the White House when President Bush planned to take down the worst dictators of the Middle East. They protested against the imprisonment of our most dangerous terrorist enemies at home and in prisons abroad. They fought against profiling and advanced interrogation techniques, they organized secret radical cells on very own soil and they have clogged countless courts with their endless attempts to derail our democracy of moral decency.
Even worse, they have lured a new generation into the tactics of perpetual protest. As martyrs, enemies and agitators, they represent the antithesis of Constitutional Americanism. They are against every tradition that has made this country great and have nothing to offer in a constructive or positive sense. They want to tear our world apart so that they may dance in the shadow of our crumbling faith. And in that darkness, hidden away from common sense and ethical living, they engage in the most vile, bestial acts. Sexual liberation leading to multiple partners, orgies, homosexuality, lesbianism, voyeurism, teen sex and chemically-fueled perversion are all part of their plan. They have perverted medical science and our legal system to such an extent that deadly street drugs like marijuana are now decriminalized and available to our children at any bus stop. They have no compunction against teaching our young to rebel and to hate, to despise Christian teachings and to avoid the responsibility we all have towards our Creator. Instead, they worship Mother Gaia and her tree faeries, witchcraft, the cult of self-indulgence, masturbation, and any form of abuse. They take great pride in spreading their foul disease to young and old alike, drawing blood oaths from the innocent or feeble-minded, anyone to grow their political numbers and push this country closer to a socialist dictatorship.
Hippies are predominantly white and they have used that unfairly to their political advantage. They appear at PTA meetings and town events pretending to represent normal society. They avoid police stops on our roads by tucking their long hair back into their shirts and driving moderately, no matter what incredible amounts of mind-bending psychotropics they have just ingested. Under the radar of sturdy Americanism, they live out a prolonged adolescence where the they chase a nightmarish list of kicks: marijuana, hashish, LSD, heroin, magic mushrooms, ice, nitrous oxide, crystal meth, Oxycotton, opium, Nexus, MDMA, GHB, mescaline and more. Spending all their time in this balmy, criminal world, they know nothing of hard work. Instead, the adult hippie will resolve every complex life dilemma with a bong hit. Whether it’s at music concerts, watching television shows or even on the internet, they float by in a perpetual “purple” haze seeking highs from nudity and corporeal violation, profanity and slovenliness, entirely divorced from manliness and decency.
As a group, they are the chief proponents of public nudism in this country. Possibly due to their immense consumption of psychedelics, they take great pride in showing off their unathletic, unshaven bodies at beaches, camps and even in our village squares. Why must they flaunt all that shamelessness and frighten the goodly amongst us? It is horrifically terrifying. So many beaches have become off limits to Christian families because of their flamboyant displays of debaucherous flesh, carnal and curvy, tan lines nonexistent. Some live on farms and communes, engaging in political hostility and backward agrarianism. Others inhabit old vans and school buses, stealing water from public hydrants and luring school kids into all night drug parties. They constantly cruise the internet looking for a thrilling marijuana “score” and maybe a fluid-drenched intergeneration erotic encounter in some disused graveyard. Simply put, they will take any opportunity to fester like a sore on the underbelly of our wholesomeness.
On a personal level, a hippie can be defined as a person who will abuse drugs until the day he or she dies, irregardless of health issues or pleas from their children. They wear loose, used clothing and grow their hair unnecessarily long. Both males and females adorn themselves with colorful, cheap jewelry and avoid precious metals like gold or diamonds. Their appearance is wholly unkempt and they mask their unwashed bodily odors with patchouli oil, incense or other fragrances. Eastern religion is something hippies often try, but usually hold very little allegiance to. They will pretend to be a Buddhist Monk or a Zen Master for they love the arrogant titles, as well as the trinkets and idols crammed onto their bookshelves. The time required to study these foreign rituals, however, usually proves too trying on their limited patience. True faith frightens them beyond belief and usually pushes them to light up another marijuana joint.
Having little access to top tier educations, hippies turn to music as an avenue for the pretense of intellectualism and culture. They will take great delight in speaking of concerts or even attending them, though their range of performers is quite limited and rarely goes beyond the bands The Grateful Dead and The Phish. When they discuss these two bands, they will invoke grandiose tones as if they’re touring the Louvre or witnessing a Puccini opera. Drugs are an essential component to enjoying this sort of music, for it contains very few discernable lyrics and enjoyable beats. Rather, it is like an improvised jazz solo with the lowest quality acoustical instruments pumped through a sound system purchased at a toy store. There are screams and shrieks and depressing sessions of drum beatings that never seem to end.
The Grateful Dead is notorious for the intense availability of every drug known to mankind at their concerts. Young people tempted into this illicit world rarely return unharmed. Entering into these events, one is assaulted by sexual and psychedelic demands that push you into naked frenzies and hours-long blackouts. The music itself is harsh and overwhelming, crafted to outrage our most basic moral instincts. It celebrates an elite form of hedonism so sickening that one imagines the deepest pits of hell couldn’t possibly be more terrifying. Children have long been cursed into lifelong spirals of wanton sexuality and extreme political fanaticism after being exposed to this sort of experience.
The Phish play for a younger, more innocent crowd less concerned about social activism and more preoccupied with a sarcastic disdain for conformity. The songs revolve around the absurd, yet still force the simpleminded to celebrate self-indulgence and radical consumerism. For fans of The Phish, life is about expressing an identity through purchasing “green” products and watching adult cartoons. They will abuse drugs and frustrate their parents, but never enough to land in jail or lose their allowances (even into adulthood). Masturbation and LSD are also shockingly common in this crowd. For your average Phish concert-goer, it’s not uncommon for them to awake in odd circumstances (at the side of a road, wallet emptied and their body covered in bruises, for example) with no recollection of what transpired the night before. This cycle of amnesia is what keeps them coming back for more shows as they try to figure out what they could have possibly done to themselves.
I have written about the youth trend of “hipsters” in the past and it’s important to realize that hippies are somewhat different. Hipsters, while also predominantly Caucasian, tend to come from more affluent backgrounds and their sophistication shows. The hipster rebels against wealth and power by slumming in urban, ethnic ghettoes. They use family money to create farcical careers as unpublished authors or fashion designers. They tend to be far more sexual and consequently likelier carriers of herpes and genital warts. Hipsters fetishize clothes above drugs, while for hippies it’s the opposite. There are far more homosexuals in the hipster demographic, for the hippie does not enjoy expensive hair products and tight clothing. Hippies are more often overweight and unappealing physically, as hipsters use more cocaine and cigarettes than their peers and remain lithe and active. Both groups are unnecessary distractions for children and should be avoided with a concerted, parental effort.
In conclusion, it’s clear that the hippie lifestyle is little more than cover for middle class drug abuse. Unfortunately, the feeble minds of these addicts have been co-opted by unscrupulous political operatives to support a dangerous socialist agenda. For this reason, they pose a threat to the beauty and humanity of the Christian faith in America today. These are people bent on blackmailing decent society to pay for their worst indulgences, from the public nudity to the parade of narcotics pumping through their veins. They want to lure the youth generation and the generation after that into a culture of persistent abuse and failure. They are a plague that is spreading, infecting the organs one by one and crippling the most wondrous of our children with a lifetime habit of “free love” socialist emasculated experimentation. They are destroying Christianity and subjugating the faithful. What will this world be without the vital righteous leadership of the United States? What hell awaits a decade or two away if these sorts of people keep on keeping on? How can we risk all the tremendous gains we have made as a people humble before our Great God if these sickening creatures are allowed to prey on children, to slither down our streets, to congregate on our town squares, naked and high? America, today I ask you to wise up and make sure we don’t take this risk!
6:57 am
it seems mister hypocritical is back in full force. i’m sorry but when the article fits better on christians than on hippies(looking aside you haveing the oposite values mentioned) it being minaly bassed on asumptions(i’m sorry but how do you know how they think and feel? not exactly like you have expirience) and is full of plainly untrue facts(diamonds are not a metal, budishm is not about faith at least not the way you atribute faith, marijuhana isn’t deadly and no most of these people are not hippies.
add to that the fact that rest of the article is bound on openions(you don’t like the music they listen to huh? guess what it’s still better than the crap i hear in church by a long shot)
“These are people who have managed to deny every positive cultural change of the last 50 years. ”
well that got nothing on you guys seeing as you have managed to deny any cultural change ever be it positive or negative.
“So many beaches have become off limits to Christian families because of their flamboyant displays of debaucherous flesh, carnal and curvy, tan lines nonexistent”
i’m sorry but do you own the beaches? why are these people not alowed to enjoy them as they see fit? they are not going around bothering you you could just leave them alone. oh but their precense anoy you? well your precense anoy me so stay in your fucking house and away from you PC. it’s only fair acording to you.
“Eastern religion is something hippies often try, but usually hold very little allegiance to. They will pretend to be a Buddhist Monk or a Zen Master for they love the arrogant titles, as well as the trinkets and idols crammed onto their bookshelves.”
do you have any understanding of these relegions? if not maybe you should simply shut up.
“They have no compunction against teaching our young to rebel and to hate, to despise Christian teachings and to avoid the responsibility we all have towards our Creator. Instead, they worship Mother Gaia and her tree faeries, witchcraft, the cult of self-indulgence, masturbation, and any form of abuse.”
i’m sorry but i thought we had freedom of relegion. if you can teach what you belive why can’t they do the same? awfully hypocritical though that’s nothing new.
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4:41 pm
My son, you are simply confused. I have no idea what you mean when you say the people above are not hippies. Are you referring to the photos? Or some section of my article? In both cases, you are flat out wrong. Sorry to break it to you, you did try to understand me but you just don’t have the patience to absorb what I’ve written.
“For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding. He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk in integrity, guarding the paths of justice, and He preserves the way of His godly ones. Then you will discern righteousness and justice and equity and every good course.” –Proverbs 2:6-9.
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6:06 pm
the people you talk about are not hippies. because that is not what hippies belive in. a lot of other groups who may overlap with hippies do however. but thanks for avoiding all my points your article was also very nice with it’s entire lack of any content.
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7:43 pm
I wish you had a specific area that you could to. Otherwise, I really have no idea what section of this article you’re talking about.
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Are you referring to the parts of your blog post that Jazze pulled out? Because I’m pretty sure Jazze made it clear what was being quoted on, and knowing you, you like to avoid having to explain yourself just so you can give yourself an opportunity to show your hatred towards everyone, show your ignorance, your arrogance, your stupidity, and your lack of understanding or research.
Keep fucking up the Bible Stevie, the devil’s got a special place for you in Hell.
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7:32 am
yeah i know it’s hard. i mean just like you can’t find my arguments(aparently) i can’t find any arguments of yours either. huh i guess that simply means this a big page of nothing.
maybe if you turned you brain on and tried reading(i know this is a lot to ask of you but please try) you could go up to my comment it’s the first of them all and the read it and first read the part of your article i quoted and then read my response witch is directly below.
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1:19 am
To all my detractors here today questioning my faith:
You say that I do not represent Christianity, you say that I am outside of the mainstream, you label me a radical, but are you truly so blind to the passion of Evangelicals in America today? I’m not alone, in fact I’m part of a very large community that people like you pretend do not exist. My journalism follows closely the work of Dr James Dobson who created one of the most successful faith-based organizations in this country, helping families deal with the crises of pornography, sexuality and drug addiction. Have you never heard of Focus on the Family?
My information about homosexuality comes from the groundbreaking Christian organization Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, run by Peter LaBarbera who has an incredible track record exposing the lies of the liberal left and promoting a conscientious and Biblical approach to the gay problem. And I am joined in this fight by the Family Research Council (Tony Perkins) and the National Organization of Marriage (Maggie Gallagher), both groups so massive and important that surely some of your friends and neighbors are adamant supporters. If you disagree with me on these issues, you are disagreeing with all these millions of Americans around you.
My reading of the Bible and my dedication to Christ’s Words are wholly in line with what Evangelicals are preaching all across this great country. I fight against the “deviancy cabal” drawing directly on the Biblical teachings of renowned scholars like the Reverends Bryan Fischer, Lou Engle, Rick Joyner, Estus Pirkle and Joel Osteen to name but a few. I also am a fervent supporter of the Reverend Dr. Pat Robertson who has literally touched tens of millions with his 700 Club ministry and Liberty University. My beliefs rarely stray from Pat’s guiding light. When it comes to radical feminism, there is Constitutional attorney Phyllis Schlafly who has wrestled against it for decades. She is known the world over for her advocacy and love of Jesus. You think I imagine the discrimination and bigotry our faith faces every day? Read the journalism of David Limbaugh (brother of Rush).
When it comes to politics, you seem equally out of touch. It’s people like you who fail to understand why those of us in the Tea Party are so engaged. We love this country, we want to do everything we can to save it. Honor, integrity and the Constitution are vital to us. I will not abandon that and looking around at the town hall meetings, the protest marches, the rise of our candidates, we are making an impression. We are an integral part of the United States and if you’re so conceited that you can’t be bothered to recognize the revolution happening before your very eyes, I really don’t know what to say.
You try to malign me, cast me aside but you fail to see I am simply a man who is but one of you. I’m dedicated and I’m honest. I speak the truths that are being spoken by countless others all across this glorious country. It’s not me, it’s “we.”
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I don’t even know where to begin on this. It always seems to be lost to most that Jesus himself was against wars and social manipulation. The idea that he was crucified on two levels is very real to me. You believe that the idea of “an eye for an eye” should be employed on the world stage. This is obvious in what you say about removing evil dictators from the middle east. It is a propaganda tool being employed as a means to skew public opinion about these things. You talk about how shameful it is for these “hippies” (I really do not know the definition) to dress how they do and to wear their hair like they do. Something tells me that if Jesus returned right now that people like you would crucify him again. End of story.
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8:09 pm
Jesus is a hippy bro.
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8:55 pm
Don’t call me “bro” and 8000 other people have already posted that stupid comment here. If you’d take your head out of your bong hits for one minute you’d realize we’re talking about serious issues here so stop the hate.
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I love how your religion puts down anyone who is different. Hippies are about love and treating the earth kindly. You have grouped anyone with baggy shirts and flowers in hair as evil creatures. I can make generalizations as well about your faith but that is juvenile just like this article. I swear, you people are so blinded by your religion that you fail to notice that there are many other religions, many types of people, and we are not all the same. I used to be Christian but it was narrow-minded almighty people is why I can’t stand it and stopped going. Isn’t religion about acceptance? Apparently not. These people are not hippies, they may look like it but they are not. Hippies are not involved with bestial things, take a look into your own religion before you say that. You people make me sick.
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Just want to say… If there is one thing that I have learned in my education, yes I am an educated hippie bet you didn’t think we existed?!?! Anyway it is that humans, from the dawn of time, were feral and much like the other creatures that roamed the earth, this is proven OK so don’t come at me with Adam and Eve. These early men and women were stupefied by any natural cause that was unexplainable, such as a thunder and lightning storm, snow, rain, earthquake, oh and particularly motion of celestial objects.
Now further on down the number line we see the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans all have religions of their own and were polytheistic. So they came up with what at the time I admit was a brilliant idea, that there was a God for each respective happening in nature and in life. They developed Deities to assimilate different phenomena to and it worked because it made sense to them: Oh there is a lightning storm coming… Zeus must be mad, get it?
So farther down the number line, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism have all developed into major religions at this point. We find ourselves with the likes of Pierre-Simon LaPlace, Leohnid Euler, and most notably Sir Isaac Newton. Mind you there were many more brilliant mathematicians and scientists of the time, but just to name a few. They set in place the foundation for a new set of laws to be followed and painted a new picture of the world. Isaac Newton created modern calculus to enable him to study the physics of Earth.
Lastly, down the number line again and we come to Albert Einstein and now string theorists. Though string theory is, just that, a theory, so is religion by the same standards. What my point is, is that we humans have developed over a minute geographic time scale to learn more about the universe we live in and that this world we live in is much more complicated than we thought. This is not attributed to God mind you, it is nature, it is the laws of physics, both at a quantum and physical level, that make us human and able to survive, think, and BE HUMAN! This is a universal, to every person on this earth regardless of religion, code that we are obligated to adhere to.
On a final note of this rant I ask you a few questions Mr Billings, Why did God chose the acceleration of gravity to be 9.81m/s^2 for Earth, Why is water more dense than air? Why are we carbon based lifeforms? I have many more for you if you have the time, but it seems that he had so many options (there are 100+ elements on the periodic table) to chose from to create a “perfect” world and yet this world is far from perfect but HIPPIES tend to make it work and see the best of it.
7 beats/second anyone? YEM
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11:04 pm
but it’s true pastor bob. Jesus WAS a hippie. I look JUST like him. I dress up as him every halloween and the girls love it. I’m Hot Jesus, as it were. I love you. Peace be with you. And stop wasting so much energy being angry at everyone!
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Christianity doesn’t put down people who are “different.” Jesus, the founder of Christianity, loved those who were “different” to the Pharisees, the leading Jews at the time. He was often shunned because of how often he would sit down with sinners. It’s not the religion itself that’s the problem, it’s people who use religion as a hate-tactic. You can find these people in nearly every religion that has a specific set of religious texts (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, etc.)
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1:47 pm
99.9% of the people reading this think you are WRONG Billings!! Your own people even… Doesn’t that make you think at all? You really need to re-evaluate your ideas, and take a step back, and view the world from a different perspective. You are the classic definition of everything wrong with this country according to every comment and every little word you have posted on this blog. People like you are the reason America is viewed by the world as close minded fat and arrogant thieves and Hippocrates.. I am a very compassionate person, but you sir need to DIE!!
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8:01 pm
99% of the people think he’s wrong and the others are just brainwashed. This website is a joke, all of your article titles actually make me laugh, “Is My Husband Gay?”…You guys need a life. Stop hugging your bible and preaching and do something that makes a difference.
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10:37 am
I agree that this website and it’s articles are totally ridiculous! Hugging one’s bible and preaching is not a bad thing, but only if it is done with proper interpretation of what the words of the bible mean. I AM A CHRISTIAN, and I am nothing like you Billings! I am embarrassed to have you identify yourself in this way! Don’t associate yourself with my spiritual beliefs and then defile them the way you are doing on this website! You have no idea what real Christianity is!
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11:57 am
You’re right. This website is a JOKE. And the people reading it are getting so upset at what is so obviously satire. Just more proof that Christians are total morons. The articles are hilarious, but reading the comments pisses me off so much at the idiocy of people I have to take frequent smoke breaks.
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99% of the people think he’s wrong and the others are just brainwashed. This website is a joke, all of your article titles actually make me laugh, “Is My Husband Gay?”…You guys need a life. Stop hugging your bible and preaching and do something that makes a difference.
I agree with the comedian.
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4:02 pm
This article clearly is hate speech written to promote hate and bigotry. Hey ever try actually interviewing so-called counterculture people to find out about them? Not heroin addicted and alcoholic down-and-out runaways from dysfunctional Christian families but real hard working, healthy, in many cases quite successful, vital, and creative counterculture folks? Sounds like you didn’t. I got news for you. We are everywhere. This smacks of yellow journalism at its worst. You should really be ashamed of yourself but you apparently are so filled with ignorant Christian self-righteousness that I doubt that is a possibility. There are far too many myths, distortions, outright lies and misleading ignorant assumptions in this hate tract to list in a posted response to you.I hope your “God” really is a forgiving one, because you sound like Adolf Hitler preparing his followers to commit genocide. The first step in doing so is dehumanization which is what your article consists of entirely. For shame!
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6:58 pm
“And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and SATAN standing at his right hand to resist him. And the Lord said unto SATAN, The Lord rebuke thee, O SATAN, even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee ;is not this a brand plucked out of the fire? Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.” –Zechariah 3:1-3.
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THats right little man, keep pulling out versus from your book that has been re written by those who MADE peasants pay dues to the church while the priests participated in sick rituals including orgies (which you said everyone in the hippie community does)
you sick bastard.
sick
sick
sick
YOU WILL NEVER BE SHOWN THE LIGHT FOR YOU SURROUND YOURSELF IN HATRED AND DARKNESS.
LONG LIVE THE DEAD!
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6:59 pm
an open mind would KNOW that the bible was written by men–men who wanted to absolve themselves of responsibility for their shortcomings–like intolerance, bigotry, and willful ignorance–by blaming all their hateful and destructive tendencies on some unprovable “god”–the same men who insisted the world is the center of the universe and that it’s flat.
thank dog some of us have grown up…and too bad some are still mentally millennia behind.
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2:48 am
Ad hominem attacks are unpersuasive, even if delivered from the pages of the Bible.
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11:32 pm
If the hippie way of life is so wrong, then why do drugs like lsd and mushrooms connect people with god? How can these drugs take a completely un-religious person and make them believe in faith? What is it that makes these drugs spiritual? GOD. I’ve opened my third eye and I’ve connected with the real god while on these drugs. Never before though had I been spiritual at all. I even grew up as a Christian or atleast I was supposed to be. But I refused to follow these lies because I somehow knew it was all bullshit. You sir are a brainwashed idiot who believes everything this money-corrupted society has taught him. What is most pathetic is you act like your a devoted christian and in this article you go against your religion more times then I can count. Oh, and by the way you asked:
Why do hippies still exist in America?
Because God is by their side.
Keep living life like a mindless tool of society if thats how you enjoy living.
But don’t fucking tell other people how to live and judge people just because they aren’t stuck up pieces of shits like you are.
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11:57 pm
Third Eye: do you have a job?
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Billings:
Do you have any proof that you are an “investigative journalist”, and not just some random paedophile?
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4:22 pm
STEPHENSON BILLINGS, “YOU” ARE WHAT IS WRONG WITH AMERICA TODAY, SIR! THE GOOD THING IS THAT BRAINWASHED MORONS LIKE YOU ARE GETTING OLD AND DYING. YOUR CLOSE-MINDED BELIEFS ARE NO LONGER RELEVANT IN THIS WORLD TODAY. JESUS WOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOU SIR.
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“Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. … Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, SATAN; for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.” –Matthew 4:1,10,11.
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Didn’t you admit that you don’t understand Matthew? So how is quoting him supposed to help your case?
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You know, Mr. Billings, the more I think about it…..its…its…its like some power has come over me! The Lord spoke to me today in a dream (during my weekly Saturday afternoon nap) and the Lord told me that what you write is the word of god! He just uses YOU as the vehicle! Your profound wisdom has changed me! Thank you! I would like to help spread your words of wisdom in any way I can. How do I sign up?
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4:56 pm
Watch this too.
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I can’t believe that you feel the right to quote the Lord………..you are not good representation for Christians, but are rather seem to hate anyone that is not like you.
I certainly think that you will burn in hell.
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HEAR MY WORDS, BILLINGS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J10w3FuCwfQ&feature=related
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10:25 am
what a beautiful world this would have been with out religion
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6:12 pm
To each their own!!!!!! There is nothing wrong with wanting peace, being self sustaining, and thinking outside the box. This article is offense full to people that want nothing more than peace to all. You cannot knock it until you try it. Have you ever been to a grateful dead show? It is the most magical experience you will ever witness. The positive vibes there are overwhelming. They accept anyone and everyone and the love is endless. “Hippies” are not monsters like you make them out to be. How bout stepping into the 21st century. I myself am what you may consider a “hippie” and I make the deans list every semester, however I still partake in “hippie” events if you want to call it that. So please back off the “hippies”. We don’t harm anyone. Remember, your amazing country of America is a country of freedom. Let us be free, don’t judge. TO EACH THEIR OWN!
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1:56 am
Praise be to the LORD above !!!
You, my Brother, are one of the chosen ones !!!
And by Chosen Ones, I mean one of Jesus’ GAY CHILDREN.
He loves you, despite your self-hatred. He will heal your hateful heart, Brother- Can we PRAY TOGETHER ? AMEN to you and all of God’s GAY CHILDREN.
PS: GOD LOVES HIPPIES TOO ! CAN I GET AN AMEN !!!
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You said that most hippies are overweight and unattractive, yet your pictures show attractive kids with dreadlocks. where are those pics from? Do you know any self proclaimed hippies? Your statements seem to be all generalizations and stereotypes at best, and/ or fallacies at worse.
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O.K. O.K. Clearly it’s time to come clean. That whole son of god thing…Well that was a bit of a stretch. Acctualy that wasn’t true at all. It just made it a lot easier to get down Mary Magdalene’s pants. Now that we have that out of the way. Let’s move on. Being a follower of mine I find it a bit confusing you would pick on hippies. Have you looked at me lately! Also I couldn’t possibly think of anything more threatening than a peaceful group of people who truely love good music. Well there is that whole priests that prey on young boys thing. Oh, and that little known fact that religion has been the cause of more pointless deaths, and wars than anything else.
So Mr. Mental midget I hope I have cleared some things up for you.
Peace Love, and Happiness! BROTHER!
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4:11 pm
That’s not even close to funny.
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your feelin it now aren’t you dude. since you sound like a terrorist i think you should stand trial for whatever bogus charges your lot can trump against radicals who speak to far out of line. i would not even let my children walk past your house on there way to school. infact i would move to another state if i lived near you.
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8:55 pm
How can you say that isn’t funny! I said it, and I am your Lord! You are one confused individual. You pointlessly aim your hopeless prayers at me, yet I am not funny.
By the way I thought Judgement was only reserved for myself, and Dad. You must have missed that part, but to be honest most of you do. I understand that though. A maze of lies is hard to find your way out of. I hope you have fun with that. I know I will.
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4:32 pm
You, sir, are a moron. An entertaining, one, at that.
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6:13 pm
For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
knowledge and understanding, huh? interesting that if god is understanding that he…or she…yeah i went there…would condemn any group that is about peace and acceptance. you paint a disturbing picture of far right America. and you mention manliness many times…what is manliness? the oppression of women and the messed up “regan-esque” beliefs that set the american economy back over 25 years? you are incredibly ignorant. also, you condemn hippies and their long hair…but im pretty sure Jesus had long hair and a beard and was a peace loving, accepting HIPPIE.
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Sir,
What makes me a hippie? Is the fact that I have dread locks? Because I do not wear make up? Is it that I choose to endulge in organic, more healthier ways of eating than the average American? Is it my clothes made of hemp and that one day I hope to live in a sustainable living “green home” and possibly one day a community of such? Is it because I sometimes like to trip on psychedlic drugs? Perhaps it is because (by CHOICE) I do not own a vehicle, or television, and choose not to be attatched to a cellular device. Are these the things that make up a hippie? But what if I don’t want to tear our world apart? What if I feel that I am not hidden away from common sense and ethical living? However, sexual liberation, orgies, homosexuality, lesbianism, voyeurism seem like a gift of life. What about the fact that I am a junior in college, with a 3.9 GPA. (and by the way, I am a student at a Methodist college.)Yes, I take part in drum circles, pot circles, and if God decides for my (drug induced) trip, then the occasion fearie circle. But this does not make me any less educated or any lower-than-you trash. Furthermore, I would like for you to know that I am deeply involved in community volunteer work, relief efforts in Africa, and also strive hard for acceptance and abuse-awarness for homosexuals, bisexuals, and transgender human beings. I could list, I’m sure, at least a few hundred attributes that many non Christians are quick to think about ALL Christians.
To say that YOU, sir, hate muslmis, or are a person who is involved in hate crimes, or who perhaps is a preist that touches young children would surely upset you. Opression of a social/religious/racial/continental/sex group that you claim to be a part of is never right, nor a positive feeling for any party involved.
The Bible that you are so desperately trying to force upon others has taught you to not be judgemental, and to leave the judging for God alone. It also asks us to remember that everytime we lay judgement on a fellow person, we are being judged just the same. It seems here, that you are playing a blame game.. perhaps your son or daughter was caught getting high and you think it is every no-good hippies’ fault. I am not going to bash you or your beliefs, because that would go against what I know is right. I only ask for you to rethink your ways.. What if every Christian was like you? So quick to jugde. So quick to state those judgements as fact.. So ready to opress anyone who is not of his kind.. also.. it is a bit unfortunate that you feel that these hippies have nothing but drugs and rock and roll to preach. I have found, in my life of being around and growing with said hippies, that we are some of the most caring and giving people still left on the face of this earth.
Bless.
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8:12 pm
hi im matthew and i think you are FUCKING RETARDED
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3:24 pm
Wow, someone has seriously mislead you about the motives and whole idea behind the hippy life style. you go back to reading your psamls and leave the freeminded peoples be
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10:19 am
Maybe you remember this one? “Thou shalt not judge”!!!!
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7:15 pm
It’s a poor writer who blames his audience for misunderstanding.
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10:15 pm
I cannot even believe you had the patience to sit and write this crap, Stephenson. Jesus did not talk bad about any group, even Samaritans or prostitutes. He would be totally ashamed of your flamboyancy. And by the way, Jesus was a traveler. He made his rounds on foot to make sure tons of people got the opportunity to hear the good word. Imagine where the world would be if he decided just to sit home and wait out the last years of his life. Wow. It’s people like you that make me think freedom of speech is a bad thing. You are insulting and rude. And I don’t know what group of hippies you’ve come in contact with but any that I’ve ever met are not whor-ish people. And Jesus was hairy and so was John the Baptist. He lived in a desert, eating locusts and eating raw honey while wearing animal skins for clothes. Yet Jesus was his friend and knew God sent him. A hippie baptized Jesus. I’m pretty sure he didn’t have the closed, bigoted mind set that you have. Maybe you should take a lesson from the man you claim to represent.
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3:49 pm
You said:
In post 9/11 era, they were one of the few holdouts against the flowering of pro-American nationalism so crucial in a time of terror and war.
In other words you support blind patriotism and lend your voice to a cause which led to the death, displacement, or maiming of 500,000 + innocent human beings in Iraq. It has been proven that the reasons we invaded Iraq were based on lies and doctored evidence. Do you consider pro-american nationalism of more importance than human life? It would seem you have chosen to support the ideas of the old testament god instead of the new testament god. Lucky for you in 325 A.D. Constantine hand selected a group of people who voted to allow both gods into the bible. Those who actually disagreed were exiled or executed.
Considering you base the foundation of your life upon this faulty information it is no small wonder your article reeks.
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7:02 pm
We had a righteous cause in the Middle East to defeat the terrorists bent on destroying our civilization.
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What terrorists? Al Qaeda was in a completely different country when we invaded Iraq. Bush even stated that part of the mission objective was to take Iraq’s oil, he didn’t give two shits about those deaths that a terrorist group caused. We weren’t fighting a war with terrorists, we were fighting a war for oil, and the people that fought back weren’t ‘anti-American’ terrorists, they were Iraqi’s who were fighting to keep their country safe.
There were only a handful of scuffles in Afghanistan compared to the battles in Iraq, and even then there were plenty of times where the higher-ups of Al Qaeda were in our sights and we essentially let them go, just to keep the ruse up that they had connections to the Iraqi government.
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7:59 am
“We had a righteous cause in the Middle East”
Have you been smoking some of the “deadly street drug” yourself there buddy?!!!
We went in there (after arming that country with weapons ourselves) we used a guise of terrorists to go in so Saddam couldn’t sell oil on the global market for Euros (which might destabilize our fiat money system that is run by the banker elite) This is your just cause sir?!!!!!!!!! insane. so basically what you are saying is that human lives are insignificant as long as they are them pesky foreigners in head wraps? I’m pretty sure you would be against this type of horror going on in the streets you live. Can you immagine waking up to see your family killed, maimed, burned, cripped, by a tomahawk missile? But it would be a righteous cause right? as long as those banker elite have the system under control for you.
After we instilled all this fear and sold it to the American public to GENERATE this patriotism and install more government control like the patriot act and all kinds of other b.s that ppl like you are so ready to do and give up true freedom.
(P.s & don’t bother painting me as the anti government drug using, no job hippie you despise so much either, because guess what.. I am a middle class, Christian, well educated person who works for the government, stuck on this system of debt, fiat currencies, and servitude but at least my eyes are open)
Go back to bed America, your government has figured it out… go back to bed America, your government is in control…. GO BACK TO BED BILL, your government is in control.
You are free to do as we tell you
You are free to do as we tell you
You are free to do as we tell you
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6:00 am
kitteh want some of what yer smoking billings
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8:09 am
Hmm this is pure evilness dressed and hiding behind jesus. You destroying everything jesus stood for. But if there is a hell. Satan is going to love dress you guys like girls and fuck you hard in the ass everyday to infinity. The question is: Why do Satans buttyboys still exist in america? No seriously i know the guys (gays) Behind Christwire. And one of them (No names) looove to borrow hes grandmother old panties. I cauht him in action. (This is not a joke)so all this crap they write here is just basiclly isuess they have by them selfs.
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11:20 pm
You sir, are an idiot.
I could only stand to read the first few paragraphs before I realized that you’re not joking… You represent the problem with the world today, with people like you it’s always THEMTHEMTHEMTHEM, when in reality it’s USUSUSUSUSUSUS. You also show how absolutely mental you are here; “to such an extent that deadly street drugs like marijuana are now decriminalized and available to our children at any bus stop.”
I’m suffering from a terminal illness and I’ve benefited from the effects of marijuana for several years now, I’ve smoked literally every day since 2003, I find it not only helps the pain but it helps the seizures. Who the fuck are you to say otherwise?
Deadly? Really? Seriously? Go read a bible and learn about casting stones, smoke a blunt, and shut the fuck up.
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8:13 pm
This guy is an idiot. I thought we were not supposed to judge. Do you think your God? Your propably just another child molesting, holier than thou Christian who in my eyes will burn in Hell..
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4:14 pm
Oh Fantastic! Let’s not judge the pedophiles and murderers of this world, okay! Wouldn’t want to hurt their feelings! And let’s tell Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts he can just retire since he’s a devout Catholic and doesn’t want to get caught “judging people” in that job of his! You’re an idiot and you have no clue about Matthew.
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My Dear Brother Stephenson Billings,
My God bless you and enlighten you and open your eyes to the blindness of your eyes and open them to the truth. I am a Christian, I know that Jesus Christ has died for my sins. But if you were really a christian you would know that god would not approve of this. This is not What Jesus would do. Jesus teaches us to love, and to love and forgive all as he has to done. “thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven” also “and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us”, just two small examples from the Lords Prayer which everyone knows. Number one you clearly know nothing about these individuals whose pictures you put on your site without their permission. You don’t know where they came from, what they’ve been through, or what they’re real intentions are as individuals. Number two you obviously know nothing about hippies or the people you are trying to talk about. You can not speak so confidently about something you have never even experienced yourself.
I have been to multiple music festivals, I have experimented with psychedelics, I have some friends that my be considered “hippies”, I do not have long hair, I am not a drug addict, I’m a college student on my way to my PHD in Environmental Bio-Psychology,I love the Grateful Dead, I go to church every Sunday, I have morals, I keep my clothes on, I have a job and I am a responsible individual. Along with millions of others that you think you know sooo much about but have probably never even taken the time to talk to anyone anything like this or actually experience any of these activities whether it be music festivals or psychedelic drug use. These are actually very kind, very spiritual, and very loving people and that is what being a christian is really all about…. LOVE.
So please brother please try to do as Jesus has done for you and try to find some love and understanding in your heart. May God bless you. And I hope you take the time to actually read this and really think about it and pray on it.
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11:58 am
jesus walked with all people. but most of the time took refuge with those that were outcasts of society. he accepted all and opened his arms to them.
he helped and gave service to those cast out from society.
you do not help anyone by judging them and condemning. you only separate yourself from your brothers and sisters. love those that are different from you, understand them, talk to them, eat with them, share with them and allow them to share with you. you will learn more about your true self and you closeness to the one that dwells in ALL OF US.
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4:17 pm
“I have wiped out many nations, devastating their fortress walls and towers. Their cities are now deserted; their streets are in silent ruin. There are no survivors to even tell what happened. I thought, ‘Surely they will have reverence for me now! Surely they will listen to my warnings, so I won’t need to strike again.’ But no; however much I punish them, they continue their evil practices from dawn till dusk and dusk till dawn.” So now the LORD says: “Be patient; the time is coming soon when I will stand up and accuse these evil nations. For it is my decision to gather together the kingdoms of the earth and pour out my fiercest anger and fury on them. All the earth will be devoured by the fire of my jealousy. “On that day I will purify the lips of all people, so that everyone will be able to worship the LORD together. My scattered people who live beyond the rivers of Ethiopia will come to present their offerings. On that day you will not be put to shame for all the wrongs you have done to me, because I will remove from this city those who rejoice in their pride. Never again will you be haughty on my holy hill.” –Zephaniah 3:6-11.
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8:16 am
I love it… someone has a good response like “jesus walked with all people. but most of the time took refuge with those that were outcasts of society. he accepted all and opened his arms to them.” and gives this guy advice on how to act and behave according to his own religion and he comes back with this old testament stuff about smite thee and destroy and wipe out this and that! it really shows you guys what is in his heart…. not love… not understanding… not the true meaning of being a christian, but more hate.
Being in a position of “leading” (I use the term loosely for obvious reasons)Christians you should be very careful because if you are here teaching hate and misleading people , God will be very severe on judgement day.. he has said it himself.
I pray for you because you are going to need it. May God and Christ Jesus open your heart, mind and eyes Mr. Billings.
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10:47 pm
This is mindless brainwashed talk from a neo-conservative who has little perspective to offer on a world he purposely misunderstands, simply because the people above him in his religious and social chain of command have kept him agitated and misinformed and enraged simply to harness his financial assets and his penchant for speaking his mind, no matter what brand of trash is spewing from his mouth. Congratulations on being a slave to money, power, and most of all, to the people who have manipulated you into turning your brain off and your anger up.
NEVER have I read a less thought-out set of ideas, stereotypes, boogymen, and hypocritical analysis about anything. You, sir, win the award for blatant bigotry, racism, hatred, and doublespeak, all while claiming the moral and religious high road, which is beyond a joke.
Even your own religion’s true ideals are so far from what you state here that one cannot even begin to make the jump from rationality to uber-crazy that you make in the article–it takes a special brand of ignorance for that, one that you seem all stocked up on.
Everyone doesn’t have to be like you (in fact if everyone were like you we’d all be greedy, hateful, and mentally benign, thus this civilization you claim to love so much would be in absolute shambles from having idiot zealots such as yourself at the helm mucking up our democracy, our morals, and taking our freedoms away in exchange for some hollow pseudo-salvation that does not even exist.) If you want to fund and support hatred and war and death go right ahead, just don’t expect the 90% or so of us who don’t have our heads inserted in our rectums to give our consent or our tax dollars to your scam.)
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9:00 am
someone needs to find this guy and puddle his face lol…
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9:57 am
@ Jazee: im so glad you spoke up against this ignorant dumbass. i couldn’t even get through reading this whole article as it infuriates me.
These “hippies” you speak of would encompass myself and many of my friends so take a second to open your mind and listen. we are not a menace to society! “hippies” are loving, caring, positive people who care for not just themselves and the human race but for the earth and everything living in, on and around it. We do not send around a collection plate and take money so that we can afford a cool drum kit which entices youngsters to join your cult! we do not judge people. we don’t shun people if they are gay or practice sex before marriage. we offer love and acceptance. you say we havent moved on with the times??are you crazy??? if we didnt know what was going on then how woud we know to be there protesting against nonsense! do you honestly think God is going to come down here and mend the damage we humans have done to this earth?? well we dont, so we try to mend it and respect it. we dont post hate filled attacks about your religion so you tell me………. whos the better person?? cuz thats what this is right?? a competition??? your pissed off because people are starting to wake up to your bullshit and realise there is more to this world than one fucking book!!
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7:28 pm
I’ll pray for you poor,misguided souls who actually believe these lies.It is sad that you feel you have to cut the heads off of others to make yourself appear taller.God will forgive you if you ask.And repent.I;ll be praying.
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7:44 pm
W0W! I am a Christian and I can’t believe that you claim Christ, Mr Billings. This is one of the most blasphemous articles I’ve read in some time. “Get your facts first, then distort them as you like”~Mark Twian
You have absolutely NO idea of what a “hippie” is. And if your definition of “hippie” is correct, I think we need more of “us” in this country. You would surely call me a “hippie” if you met me. I am a political activist for freedom. For American values. I am what you would call an “Aggressive Constitutionist”. I love our country. I believe that it has become so far from what it was meant to be. Thank God you still have freedom to speak such lies, because it seems the way you view politics is the exact OPPOSITE of liberty. This is a horrible desecration to people made in the image of God. Why do you feel so threatened? These young people, no matter what they look like, that you so arrogantly condemn, are the kind of people that I have as family and true friends. Please do not lay claim to what you do not know the 1st thing about. BTW: If no one has told you yet-The band’s name is “PHISH” not “THE PHISH”. Very talented musicians, to say the least. Your message of fear has made every believer that I know that has read this aricle aghast at your lack of knowledge of people, in general, and of the character of God. You make the Pharisees look like angels. I, as a believer, am incited to anger by your article. That probably makes you a happy man, though. I would encourage you to go hang with the “hippies”, then you come back and write your article all over again. You are a shame to our Christian community and a shame to our country.
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7:36 am
John Lennon would have been 70 the other day and I shudder to think of how horrible a world we’d have if he and his little bland geisha continued to spread their Soviet agenda all this time.
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11:37 am
Real Christian of you to approve of the murder of a man because his philosophies are at odds with your own… You bible-thumpers will never understand that for your intolerance and lack of empathy, you are very likely the ones who will burn in your “hell” (boy would I love to see the look on your faces!). Keep pounding away at that dogma… If Jesus (one of the biggest hippies EVER) were here, he’d probably want to go see a Phish show. Stop judging people and open your heart to everyone, rather than just the people whom you share strict beliefs with.
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9:00 am
Nothing wrong with being a hippie! I don’t get why you need to hate on hippies just because they are happier than you are man.
“Quite right about hippies though Stephenson, all that ‘love and peace’ crap causes nothing but trouble.” – Tom Donald… this guy obviously has a very miserable life and doesn’t know the first thing about happiness. Its people like you and Tommy here that cause nothing but trouble.
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4:36 pm
I think if you actually put down that bong hit and read my article you would see that there is EVERYTHING wrong with being a hippie. They oppose all the things that make America the great nation it is.
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5:21 pm
first off.. you can’t put down a bong hit. u can put down a bong. but a hit is wen u actually smoke it. more evidence that u dont do any research before u write something… second off, u can keep saying theres everything wrong with being a hippie, and i can keep saying theres everything wrong with being a stupid journalist who doesnt know wat hes talking about. the only difference between us is that u have NO proof that isnt just your opinion to back up your claim whereas i have proof that u have no clue wat your talking about and should reallllly stop writing these articles. america is not a great nation, and it wont be as long as we keep sending people over to the middle east and as long as there are people like u to harass other human beings for being who they are! hippies are about peace and love and that is wat will make america and the world a better place.
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7:46 pm
It frightens me that you’re such an expert on this drug slang. Aren’t you ashamed of the role model you’ve become for the next generation?
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9:08 pm
What’s wrong, you pissed that someone did some research about their topic Stevie? You mad that you’ve been proven wrong yet again?
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5:02 pm
aren’t you ashamed that your such a judgmental asshole? if god is real he is without a doubt ashamed that he gave u life. It frightens me that you ACTUALLY THINK your a journalist but you know nothing about the things you write about!!! You couldnt even think of anything solid so say back to me. your weak.
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7:04 pm
Second sentence, “your” should be “you’re” as in “you are.”
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7:13 pm
//Second sentence, “your” should be “you’re” as in “you are.”//
And Stevie runs away, yet again.
Stevie, why do you bother? You have no points, no proof, you’re full of lies and hate, why do you even bother opening up your mouth if you aren’t going to actually refute things? Why are you so much like a child that you’ll just bitch and whine and not try to actually cause changes that are worth a damn? You just want someone to agree that your terrorist ways is what this country needs. You want to insult black people for being black, slap a woman who’s outside of the kitchen, and murder everyone who isn’t a “native born American”, because you’re deluded into thinking that that’s how God wants things to be.
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12:45 pm
YOU’RE such a loser… you have nothing to say back to me because you know you are wrong.. grow up.
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and one other thing.. at one point in our debate u mention how it frightens you that i know so much about the “drug slang”… at least i dont write things when i don’t know what i’m talking about. no wonder your articles are such bull shit. it frightens you when people actually know wat they are talking about! hahaha
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5:35 pm
hippies loves : peace,tolerance,acceptance of every race, they are calm, not materialist, they hate war chaos and greediness, they want freedom, they love everyone even if they are different…
well it’s true billings they are totally different from america really…
America the nation of racist sexist fascist xenophobic homophobic warmongerer, greedy, materialist immoral and destructive
You said it Billings not me
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8:41 pm
You know the largest sect of Christianity tries to cover up homesexual statutory rape, and still have 0 respect for women? I think smoking a little weed is not nearly as bad as some of te terrible crimes heads of the Catholic Church try to cover up. You may not be Catholic Billings, but you do carry the same beliefs as Catholics. So by your reasoning that all hippies have the same beliefs and do the same things, that means you’re ok with homosexual statutory rape, since you share the same basic set of beleifs as Christian Catholic priests.
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8:47 pm
I’m Baptist and you’re distracting from the issue at hand. Yes, I am also dedicated to my faith and am not afraid to apply Biblical teaching to sexual impropriety, child abuse, self abuse, etc. Just because there is another evil thing out there, that doesn’t mean I can ignore the danger one cult of criminal human beings poses to our society. As an adult and a Christian, I have a responsibility to protect children and to spread the Good News of Christ’s teaching. This is a Christian website, for your information, and your hostility and threats have no place here.
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9:01 pm
You’re not Christian whatsoever. Fuck, you aren’t even a part of ANY faith, you’re nothing but a psychotic terrorist through and through. You hate and hate and hate and do nothing but that.
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7:35 am
you may have the responsibility… but you don’t have the right. if you wanna raise some kids get your own. you have no right to tell me or anyone else on this site what to do so fuck off.
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5:32 am
Take personal responsibility for your life instead of spreading intolerance. I live in a Buddhist country and they believe in the oldest form of Buddhism which can be summed up here: In Theravada belief, Buddhas, gods or deities are incapable of giving a human being the awakening or lifting them from the state of repeated cycle of birth, illness, aging and death (samsara). For Theravadans, Buddha is only a Teacher of the Noble Eightfold Path, while gods or deities are still subject to anger, jealousy, hatred, vengeance, craving, greed, delusion, and death. Steve, you still deluded and hateful to say the least! Good luck with your life… A very sad excuse for a human being…
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8:35 am
Baptist! Baptist! Now I know why you’re babbling fool. Bapist is at the bottom of the religion pole. You mite as well be a Methodist or Morom. Either way, you’re going to hell for all the hate built up in ya!
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11:54 pm
Good sir, you do realize this is a parody? Have you see the sections?
1)Masubmitory
2)Hatemail
among others! Also, if you read their ad on thier book and read the description, you may find yourself enlightened. On the bright side, Conservapedia.com offers a great deal of real christian material. Thanks!
~~~~ApertureScience:”For the good of all of us”
References:
1)http://www.en.wikipedia.org/christwire
2)christwirebook.com
3)www.christwire.org/masubmit_page
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10:22 am
“I think if you actually put down that bong hit and read my article you would see that there is EVERYTHING wrong with being a hippie. They oppose all the things that make America the great nation it is.”
I would like to make a point about this, but let me first say, have some respect. Accusing someone of drug use based only upon the fact that they disagree with you on this matter is very juvenile. As for your second statement, that hippies oppose everything that makes this nation great, I would argue that at this moment the thing that is greatest about America is that hippies are allowed to be here, Christians are allowed to be here, when we are at war, people of the country we are fighting are allowed to be here, and they have the freedom to be what they want to be. I disagree with almost everything you’ve written in this article, but I’m glad you wrote it, because that means we still have what’s most important to us. I encourage you to have a little bit more of an open mind, and value those who don’t agree with us, it’s what gives this country it’s strength.
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8:04 pm
Is this guy a joke? I can’t believe anything that comes out of Billings mouth. Ignorant man. If you are going to write an article that is FALSE, expect backfire DUDE.
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Just want to say that you say “I think if you actually put down that bong hit and read my article you would see that there is EVERYTHING wrong with being a hippie. They oppose all the things that make America the great nation it is”
Just want to say a few things on this: First, George Washington grew hemp, yeah he probably smoked it too….
Second, America started with a group of colonists of mixed religious affiliations and evolved into the land of “freedom” with a right to practice your religion and our right to be hippies. How come is it that the majority of the KKK happen to consider themselves a Christian organization? They have a freedom and use it, even if others don’t agree!!
Third, not every hippie is like the people you put in these pictures, some of these people look homeless. Granted there are homeless hippies, there are also homeless christians.
Fourth, if there is everything wrong with being a hippie, then why did people like Steve Jobs, you know him? Apple CEO, yeah admit to having done LSD and smoking pot? He obviously has done terrible things to America, oh or better yet, the World.
I also think its quite ironic and hypocritical of you to out-rightly accuse hippies of tempting people to join in on psychedelic and sexual encounters, although this is somewhat true, you assume that EVERYONE partakes in abusive drug use!… This temptation is no more a crime than having a Jehovah’s Whitness show up at your door, or having someone get “in your face/personal space” and preach to you on an issue that you have made up YOUR OWN MIND on.
Just wanted to get a few things off my chest —
Put that in your thurible and smoke it!
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12:20 am
what a load of crap. i am a so called “hippie” and i don’t smoke pot or take drugs. maybe an advil once in a while. i work, i play music, i play tennis, am an advocate for the environment. i believe in love and kindness. isn’t THAT what Christ was about? i am just stunned that there are people that hate so much.
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10:51 am
Ha, Thank You soo very much ! It was a long time since I laughed so much and from my heart I am sure that “Good God ” are involved . This is so fun to read and be a part of. Have a nice day. If we all feel free it is real. This letter is to everyone but Stephen, you make the show.You are so funny !
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8:20 am
You speak of a culture I’m afraid you know next to nothing about. Besides your pre judgments you don’t even understand half the things you speak of.
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2:25 pm
As if you don’t oppose the things America is about?
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5:23 pm
No, I do not. I love America.
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10:16 am
“Oxycotton”
Never heard of “Oxycotton”. Perhaps you meant “Oxycontin”, eh, Mr. “Journalist”?
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3:16 pm
It’s ok, we have ice and crystal meth too…
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3:11 am
“Oxycotton”
Never heard of “Oxycotton”. Perhaps you meant “Oxycontin”, eh, Mr. “Journalist”?
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Claire
ocycontin is a brand name i.e. people who make up a name to sell oxycodone for large amounts of money
oxycotton is a popular way of describing oxycodone
.. please look into things you think you know about before giving evilness to real fact people.. God be with you soon
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10:11 pm
never heard the term ‘oxycotton’ before.. people defending this man in any way may as well put the knife to their own wrists and let loose. i am embarrassed that this man calls himself an american. leaving religion out of it. hateful, hurtful, harmful, misinformed, conflicting and false ‘information’ spewing forth in the form of word vomit.
i can tell you that many hippies i know are very spiritual or religious and have deep personal connections to society and nature. your misconceptions of what you term ‘hippy’ culture are shocking, to say the least. basing your description of hippies on propagandized, antiquated anti-drug messages does nothing but make you appear to be a complete idiot that believes everything they read, despite the lack of fact or evidence involved.
it’s amazing the nonsense on the internet. to think, you actually had to be intelligent in the past to post anything online through html or coding. now any moron that can type is able to spew garbage around the virtual world.
there is not a single ounce of truth in your ‘article’.
now excuse me while i go back to my studies for nursing school so i can take care of the sick and dying for the rest of my life.. but of course you would deny that i can do this because i believe in fairness for all, love, equality, and understanding.. let’s throw in that i’m a divorced woman and i have many homosexual and transgendered friends. and that i am friends with hippies and support their lifestyle.
what could a heathen like me possibly do for humanity? oh right i can save a life and teach others how to be healthy and happy. shame on me. guess i’ll be burning in hell pretty soon with the rapture coming up and all. gosh. whatever have i been thinking. guess i better get back in the kitchen and pop out some blonde, blue-eyed, straight as a rail, conservative, racist, gullible little brats.
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12:12 pm
What an intolerant, unpleasant diatribe…whatever happened to Christ’s commandment to ‘love thy neighbour as thyself’? No sign of that here from an individual aligning himself with ‘Christian’ America.
It’s this sort of thing that gets the USA such a bad reputation abroad.
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4:37 pm
I’m sorry that my honesty offends you but I, for one, AM NOT AFRAID OF THE TRUTH! Who care what the nations abroad think of us when we’re talking about love and faith? It’s syncophants like you who coddle the criminals at the UN and keep America kissing the butts of every socialist failure in Europe. Sickening.
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5:46 pm
wow really you should shut up because you asked european help in so many wars that turning your back to them you will lose all yours allies and trust me if you lose your allies we will side with asia and your downfall will be pretty much close
by the way if you don’t care what the world think about you there is something wrong because now approx 90% of the world see you as a bunch of jackass and immoral barbarian
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7:47 pm
NOT AFRAID OF THE TRUTH!
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8:14 pm
Due to the fact that I believe that ALL christians are pedofiles, I ran your name through several sex offender databases, and you not coming up, I’m still not convinced. Maybe you haven’t been caught yet, but you will be, believe that.
That being said: RELIGION IS THE MAIN REASON WHY THE US, AND THE WORLD, ARE STAGNATING RIGHT NOW.
Get over your fairy tales already, and do something positive for the world and preach peace.
And if you come back and try to tell me some bullshit like JEEBUS or GAWD is the answer for peace, you sir, have never cracked open a history book, thus making you a special kind of retard
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8:53 pm
All that pedophile stuff is not true. The girl who did that was 14 years old and angry about some article I wrote criticizing a goth music band. In the end, every got resolved and she removed whatever it was and my truth persevered. Clearly, I am not a pedophile.
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I believe you Stephen. It’s hard to be afraid of the truth when you don’t believe in it.
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5:19 am
IF you’re not afraid of the truth, go read The God Delusion.
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5:51 pm
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I hope you understand how rediculous you are making yourself look. I am sure that everyone who reads this thinks you are absolutely crazy. I think it is hilarious. You freaking idiot. hahahahahahaha
REALLY???????
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9:12 pm
//I’m sorry that my honesty offends you but I, for one, AM NOT AFRAID OF THE TRUTH!//
You are indeed afraid of the truth, you lie so viciously to protect your false sense of security and you have so much hatred that you’ve become blind. You’ve blinded yourself from this truth and insist that your lies are the only words that are right. Why is it, that whenever you post a blog post, that there are so many ways of proving you wrong? Why are there studies done that show that everything you talk about and whine about is completely false and your ideas are the exact opposite of reality?
Why? Because you’re afraid of the truth, plain and simple.
//Who care what the nations abroad think of us when we’re talking about love and faith? It’s syncophants like you who coddle the criminals at the UN and keep America kissing the butts of every socialist failure in Europe. Sickening.//
You’ve got a god complex and you’re all for the idea of America making everyone it’s bitch. Are you sure you’re sane?
//Clearly, I am not a pedophile.//
Bullshit, you bring boys into the mountains and rape them, claiming that you’re giving them the gift of Jesus.
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1:13 pm
Sounds like Billings is running out of steam and things and people to pick on.
“Why do hippies still exist in America” wow…this is a really useless article
Why do Christians still exist in America?
Quit picking on people billings..
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1:20 pm
Furthermore Billings,I know of MANY so called “hippies”,many that are highly educated,have well paying jobs and etc.
This article is nothing more that your own personal opinions and no facts.
I am a State trooper in the state of Washington,and have many contacts with people of all walk,but most(99.9%) of the type of people YOU describe that I contact,are nothing what you describe.All you are describing is the stigma and sterotypes that goes with every issue..not facts.Still waiting for an ACTUAL article written with REAL journalism to come from your pen..
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3:53 pm
I mean, if these people are so doomed, then why do they all have huge GENUINE smiles across their faces? Hanging around this type of music scene I have seen what goes on first hand. And everything you have said Mr. Billings is 100% false. In fact, they seem like the only people who are able to cope in this society and would be the first ones to your aid if they saw you in trouble. They seem happy to me. So why does anything else really matter? If you believe they are going to burn in hell, cool. You’re fear and hate mongering, which leads me to believe you have insecurities and demons that you keep tucked away and you have yet to deal with. I feel sorry for you:(
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4:38 pm
They smile because they’re on drugs. It’s not rocket science, buddy.
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Yes, beacause all people that advocate for peace and love and that have long hair do drugs. ALL OF THEM.
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9:13 pm
So anyone who smiles is just on drugs? No one can be happy and show it? You’re the anti-thesis when it comes to Christians. You’re everything a Christian should NOT be.
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9:47 pm
And this is exactly why you are not a rocket scientist…
wow Billings,you are really the joke of the department here…lol.
I showed some fellow officers the link to this and a few other christian officers as well as my pastor..all shared the same basic reaction..disgust
Disgust that a man who would dare call himself a man of god would say such things or even be associated with other “writers” to spread misinformation in the name of god,especially on the internet.I’m sure you’ll thumbs this down too,but it’s what others have said in regards to this site.
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5:05 pm
I am pretty sure they will kick you out of a Phish show if they catch you masturbating. Maybe you stumbled upon a secret spot when you were doing your super hard core journalism work. Can you tell me where I can masturbate at a Phish show cause I am high on Nexus and Yellow Submarine right now.
I’ll be at a PTA meeting later on so I’ll just check later.
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5:16 pm
Phish? You mean The Phish, Palmer.
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5:06 pm
I would like to start by thanking BIllings for writing the most comical piece of “news” in recent, or possibly all time. I will no longer look to fox news for information with an editorial genius of Billings’ caliber at my fingertips. When i stubbled upon this site I thought it was a satirical internet blunder, but i continued to read on, i realized he is serious. This makes this material even more humorous. Mr. Billings you must be two people, because no one person could be as ridiculous as you are.
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5:15 pm
You are a sad, sad little man. I suggest you get out of the back hills of Tennessee and take some time to actually meet and interact with people instead of relying on a 2000 year old book to tell you what people are like and how they should behave. Your views of the world are completely inaccurate and Christ would be ashamed to call you one of his followers if he were still with us today. I would rather have 1 hippie as my friend than 10 million of you. Good day, sir.
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3:19 pm
HEY, I know someone from backwoods Ten, nice guy, please do not soil Ten by linking it with this hateful sad person.
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5:25 pm
This idiot Billings just wrote an article completely based in presumption and ignorance. He said, “They are against every tradition that has made this country great.” Well, I guess this guy forgot about freedom. This guy claims to be a Christian and has completely lost sight of what that means. Jesus Christ loved everyone. He taught tolerance, acceptance, and to love thy neighbors. Billings is too filled with hatred to be a good Christian. Who gave him the right to pass judgement anyway? How does someone who calls Phish, The Phish, claim to know anything about them or the people that enjoy their music? I am a hippie and I am also a successful business man with a college education and a family. I own a home and I support charities. I don’t have long hair. I am the complete opposite of the hippie image that Billings attempted to paint. All he did was create an ignorant stereotype. He should actually try getting to know some hippies and maybe he could learn a few things.
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5:46 pm
The word “hippie” has such a negative connotation, when that word is used most people think of dirty homeless people smoking meth out of tin can. When in fact most of the “new-millennium hippies” have good paying 9-5 jobs, own their own home, pay their bills and taxes, abide to most laws, and have wonderful circles of friends and family that are the kindest people in the universe.
In fact Mr Billings, if you actually attend “The Phish” show – you will find that the majority of people fit into the above category, not the passed out wooks that you are referring to in your pointless article. The city council of Telluride lobbied for “The Phish” to play a two-day concert in their small mountain town because they knew it would help their local economy, so much for your argument there.
Here’s another point of “research” missing from your article, check the statistics for the amount of battery and assault related arrests from “The Phish” shows – I guarantee the numbers of minuscule compared to any country, metal, or other genre of music concert that’s more widely accepted in society. Try doing some actual research before writing such a blindly ignorant article.
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7:53 pm
I am simply trying to share some love and spirituality with you, my friend. I do not understand your hostility. We are talking about protecting children from a very dangerous life.
“The LORD is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him.” –Exodus 15:2.
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9:16 pm
//I am simply trying to share some love and spirituality with you, my friend. I do not understand your hostility. We are talking about protecting children from a very dangerous life. //
People like you push for ‘saving the children’ just so you can push your agenda at the same time, and that agenda (yes, you actually have one, not a made up one you’ve come up with in your head) includes reducing the rights of all basic citizens and forcing the Church and State to become one again, violating the basic right and foundation that caused this country to be colonized in the first damn place, FREEDOM OF RELIGION, including expressing a faith other than Christianity.
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9:58 pm
“I am simply trying to share some love and spirituality with you, my friend. I do not understand your hostility. We are talking about protecting children from a very dangerous life.”
Billings, that’s EXACTLY what I would expect to hear from A HIPPIE.
Every one of your BLOGS reveal absolutely nothing that pertains to the real world, but reveal so much about your own obsessions and repressions, regrets and denials. All the licentious behaviors you so hysterically decry (‘Methinks though doth protest too much!’) exist mostly in a fantasy world created by your own overactive, repressed and overworked imagination. It doesn’t take a degree in Psychology to see how badly you wish you could physically manifest these bizarre, dangerous behaviors you BLOG so negatively about.
“NOT AFRAID OF THE TRUTH!”
Then you’ll admit that you’re a closeted homosexual? From the graphic nature of your BLOGS, it’s pretty obvious that you are.
”On a personal level, a hippie can be defined as a person who will abuse drugs until the day he or she dies, irregardless of health issues or pleas from their children.”
So you’re writing the dictionary now? I sure hope not, because “irregardless” isn’t a word. It’s a double negative. But I’m sure you knew that and just included it to keep us on our toes, eh, Mr. “credentialed investigative journalist”?
And as long as you claim to be a “credentialed investigative journalist” without providing evidence, you’re JUST ANOTHER LIAR. How does God feel about liars, again?
I’m pretty convinced at this point that Billings is the result of some mad (Christian) scientist giving the “squeal like a pig” hillbillies from “Deliverence” Bibles and computers, just to see what would happen…
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10:10 pm
I have evidence that billings does in fact have gay men and lesbians,and other according to billings himself “questionable people” on his facebook friends list.
Als o I noticed that billings has closed off his facebook page,but I took numerous screenshots before he did so.What gives billings,do your friends know you talk bad about them behind their backs?
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3:43 pm
First off, my facebook page is not close. The link at the top of the page is old, just click on my name. Secondly, I find it quite offensive that you attack me because I happen to have friends who may be homosexual. That’s rather disgusting, Brandon, and you’re truly showing your closemindedness. I think you should be ashamed of such tactics, Mr. Screenshot.
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7:45 pm
You attack homosexuals on a daily basis, you attack liberals on a daily basis, you attack Obama on a daily basis. You still wanna claim you’re a model Christian?
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11:43 pm
You just contradicted yourself there Mr Billings.I deal with criminals and innocents every day and I know what to look for,remember,we are trained to observe..you are fooling no one now.If this was a case you would be found guilty easily.You will not admit it,but you cornered yourself with those two statements and statements you have made in articles referring to homosexuals.
Put simply,you can not be friends with a homosexual and at the same time rage against homosexuals.that is contradicting each other.It is either one or the other. While I do not doubt your faith as a christian,I doubt your abilities to fairly represent groups.
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7:42 pm
I love jerking off on LSD. Especially when I make my OH faces during a sick Hood jam.
But I must inquire Wilson, CAN YOU STILL HAVE FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!
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9:49 pm
Yeah… what Trey said dude!
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7:44 pm
how you feel about hippies is how i feel about christians.
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7:48 pm
Stephenson,
How do you feel about juggalos? WHOOP WHOOP JUGGALO, you about to get sprayed with faygo.
Also, Magnets how the fuck do they work?
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3:46 pm
I am not sure what you’re talking about, but if you’re talking about “jugglers” yes I do happen to like them, though I never quite learned the art myself. Once or twice, probably before most of you people were born, I performed with a great guy who was a juggler and he could get five balls in the air and children just went wild. We talked about doing a partnership, nothing ever came of it, but we were good friends for some time after. And he was certainly charming but one day he had to move into an apartment with low ceilings (because of a woman) and boy was he unhappy!
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I grew up on a hippy commune.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT3U-IYob8E&feature=related
(note all the hard work that was done and continues to be done through the organization called “Plenty”)
In 6th grade we were being taught college courses at our hippy school.
In 7th grade I went to public school off the commune where I made the honor roll without trying as they were using text books we had already used several years before. The hate that was spewed apon me from the backwoods christians for being a “hippy” was astonishingly unbelievable just as this article is.
I was extremely nice to everyone as my mother taught me to live by “the golden rule” – treat everyone as you wished to be treated. I was nice, clean and intelligent but because I was from the hippy commune I was called “freak” from the first day and every single day for 4 years I was harrassed, bullied, threatened, kicked, punched, spit on by people I had never done anything to and had only been nice and friendly to.
And these were people who claimed to be Jesus loving Christians! It is almost too horridly ironic to bare that these people accept an ancient long hair peace lover as their savior and then act with such disgusting indecency on hatred that fills their hearts for modern long hair peace lovers. It is absolutely bewildering that anyone could have so much hate like the Christians that tortured me at school and like the deplorable person who wrote this pathetic and opprobrious article.
That being said, it is utterly HILARIOUS. Every single sentence is quite possibly the most comicly entertaining, gut-wrenchingly laughable nonsense I have ever read.
(Finally fed up in 10th grade after several years of correcting my teachers and being abused by the bible thumpers, I got my GED and went on Dead tour
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Wow. Thanks for this, Adolph.
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You are ridiculous. I’m a ‘hippie’ and I don’t do any drugs. You have no idea what you’re talking about. Fuck you and God
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Stephenson Billings says:
October 16, 2010 at 7:04 pm
Second sentence, “your” should be “you’re” as in “you are.”
It’s funny to see this criticism coming from a man who uses the word “irregardless.”
Sixth paragraph, first sentence:
“On a personal level, a hippie can be defined as a person who will abuse drugs until the day he or she dies, irregardless of health issues or pleas from their children.”
Regardless of what you have heard, “irregardless” is a redundancy. The suffix “-less” on the end of the word already makes the word negative. It doesn’t need the negative prefix “ir-” added to make it even more negative.
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3:42 pm
“I performed with a great guy who was a juggler and he could get five balls in the air”
Was that as hard as getting two balls in your mouth?
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HAHAHAHAHAH!
This article is a total joke. Praising the words written by humans of a different era will not solve the problems we face today. Jesus would probably love hippies. Your hatred and ignorance is the death of a peace-loving religion, y’hypocrite!
Get over yourself!
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11:04 am
FIrst of all, this website is sacrilegious; “Christwire” think about it a minute. Second of all, it is obvious the day your wrote this article you were very upset at hippies, I think maybe one cut you off, or something, just got under your skin. We all know how easy it is for you jesus freaks to pass judgement when you get upset, so I think it is VERY obvious, maybe too obvious and you n eed to tone yourself down, oh wait, toning down is something religion has no clue about….you make me sick with your anti everything ideals.. second of all, you are worshipping a false diety, how can you honestly think any kind of God would allow people like YOU to run around shoving your opinion down everyone’s throat? Do you think any God would find all this war and hate YOU churches, and religious freaks start to be in ANYWAY acceptable? You need to wake up. Soon, otherwise you deserve nothing less than your church to be burned with you and all your self rightious, blind, contradicting, prejudiced friends inside. YOU are the reason the world is in such dismay, YOUR God is he reason everyone in the world is always fighting, you are too GOD damn stupid to understand any of this, and you think you are right, and seriously this is exactly why you are the scourge of the world. Because you are too bloody stupid to even comprehend how or why you are fucking things up for everyone. You need to take your opinions and shove them up your biased, self rightious ass. Before someone like me does it for you. I mean holy shit, just look at the nonsense posted on this racist prejudice website, I should have you people reoprted fopr this: “Dressing up as Lady Gaga is a sin against Jesus” Why? It is a costume…..idiots. “Is my Husband gay?” He probably is since he has to live with a controlling religious nut. this one is disgusting…. “I am extremely terrified of Chinese people.” I bet none of you have any problem going to the chinese buffet……hipocrites. HOW ABOUT YOU SORT YOUR LIFE OUT BEFORE ATTACKING EVERYONE ELSE!
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7:33 pm
I know this article was only written for one reason: author wants attention like a child does. I’ll forgo a scathing reply. only thing i have to say is: get a life.
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7:52 pm
You know how I know you’re a fucking moron? You called Phish “The Phish”. NO one calls them “The Phish”. Hey Billings, your ignorance is showing.
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7:53 pm
this guy has obviously never heard a really epic Reba jam before. Or maybe he needs to listen to the Went Gin. After he hears that, he’s gonna put down the bible on go on fall tour!
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2:01 pm
This is the best website ever.
Far more entertaining than the Onion.
With all due respect to the gentleman behind this site, you have no sense of reality…which makes for great humor. Thank you.
And to the guy who likes the Great Went Gin…I must say I prefer the Clifford Ball version, but hey, I hear ya!
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7:58 pm
Stephenson Billings I have met tons of these people you will find your bad apples in ever bunch but for the most part. They are nice peaceful people yea they practice Christianity more then the moral majority they believe in God’s gift of Free Will and in Peace for most part they are willing to help people when they are down lend a hand I have seen it with my eyes. They don’t want to legislate their religion upon anyone unlike the some so-called Christians that think it is their purpose to force their beliefs upon others not heading Jesus’ warning to render all things that are of Government to Government. And you still don’t understand by bad mouthing people in the way you do you could turn people away from Christ need I state what shall happen to a person that does that I am sure you know if you read your Bible as a fellow Christian I must say to you throwing rocks in glass houses is no fun. If you are a true Christian stop hating on them and show love and peace. Peace be with you and I hope you find peace in your own self instead of contempt for others.
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8:22 pm
Stephen stop playing with your internet boyfriends and come upstairs for dinner.
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8:35 pm
I read the article and laughed. I fear Christians a lot more than hippies.
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^agreed
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What a n00b. 420 for life. Firemost nuggets aww yeahhh
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This is gold! Did anyone check out the Hippes vs Hipsters photo? The Phish! Mr. Billings, do you do the comic circuit? Judging by your writing you would be a hit, and I’m not even kidding you. Someone get this man in front of a camera
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8:46 pm
Stephen I have some of the firemost shards for you. All you have to do is meet me the lot on fall tour. I’m easy to spot, I have no chin.
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9:44 pm
It saddens me that you are so drugged out you can barely form a coherent sentence. You comment makes zero sense.
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7:13 pm
lulz
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8:46 pm
Ehhh, his sentence didn’t make sense, your essay didn’t make sense, let’s stop picking nits….
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3:48 pm
“You comment makes zero sense.”
Ha ha, what drugs are you on?
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11:17 pm
Hahaha! All the shard and dose in the world couldn’t turn on this guys lovelight. what a lost soul. I just feel bad for him. Stephenson, get over yourself. Im sorry you didn’t experiment with fun when you were younger but i’ve had a ball, long hair and all! You did accomplish one thing though so i have to give you credit for that. After reading your article I feel filthy and am actually going to go shower, way down, down, down by the docks of the city.
I love my god and he is that which is love. You should check in to it sometime. He is the one you pray to but ignore the teachings of.
***Dead to the Core*** (~);}
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8:48 pm
If you want the truth sir here it is:
Christians as a whole have harmed humanity much worse than a group of hippies. I hope I do not have to cite anything here. History speaks for itself
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8:58 pm
I think it would be a good idea (and lots of fun) to get a list of all the bad things hippies have done and compare it to all the bad things Christians have done. Understanding the brutal history of Christianity on our society and all he blood that was spilled in the name of the bible may help give the author some much needed clarity.
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9:16 pm
Mr. Billings,
I hope you know there are plenty of sober minded people at Phish and Dead shows, and your generalization is completely stereotypical, and frankly prejudiced. Look into the Phellowship and Wharf Rats.
And by the way, I’m cool with Jesus’ teachings…didn’t he say something about the golden rule? Well that’s what the so-called “hippie” community is based upon; karma. Not some convoluted view of religion that has been warped and twisted to fit your narrow minded view of the universe.
Sincerely,
Bobby “fukin” Weir
ps: quit being so angry and smoke some bud!!! Life’s too short to push your petty delusional views upon others.
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9:46 pm
I have heard a rumor that the musician Bob Weir is a homosexual. Is that true?
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10:12 pm
“I have heard a rumor that the musician Bob Weir is a homosexual. Is that true?”
Oh. My. Fucking. God.
Aren’t you a “credentialed investigative journalist”? Are you actually asking the people you just got done insulting to do your fucking “job” for you?
Why don’t you just do what you always do- make up a bunch of bullshit, crank the homoeroticism up to 11, post it on your BLOG and call it informed journalism?
Jesus Fuck, Billings, you really are a shit piece of work.
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10:19 pm
Honestly, this is a rumor I’ve heard and since these people here seem to know about The Grateful Dead I thought I’d ask. Calm down, it was a simple, straightforward question.
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8:36 am
no it’s not a simple straight forward question. It is a loaded question designed to irritate people you have never met but have deep hatred for. Again, at once point did Jesus teach hate and intolerance?
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3:54 pm
Why the unhealthy obsession with homosexuality? You will never hook up with Bob Weir so don’t even bother fantisizing about it while you’re up there in the woods with all your young xtian boys.
Just admit it to yourself. You will find much less personel hate and self loathing once you accept that your homosexuality is normal.
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9:17 pm
Hey Billings!
My 15 year-old sister wants to know when you’re going to start sending that child support.The baby is almost 3 now!
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9:30 pm
You should have posted a pic in your Bobby Shorts. I bet that would get his christian blood boiling
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9:39 pm
whos got my 10/31 extra
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9:40 pm
whos got my 10/31 extra?
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9:43 pm
and whos got my heady abborted fetuses?
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9:47 pm
Offensive!
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4:47 pm
the pic or the fetuses cuz myself and others sling the tastiest aborted fetuses on the lot cmon down to a show this tour stevey buy some 1 for 3$ 2 for 5$
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9:53 pm
HA! This Stevie cocksucker got totally Pwned on the “put down your bong hit” comment. What a moron. I was thinking the same thing my Hippie friend; you can’t put down a bong hit.
But anyways, I’m neither a hippie or a conservative but I do live close enough to the Bay area for this guy to probably hate me. Which brings up a point. Why does Stevie preach such hatred towards other groups? I thought Christ was supposed to be all-forgiving, and loving. Am I mistaken on that?
I’m off to go rip some tubes, grow a moustache, and conspire against Right-wing radicals.
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10:16 pm
“And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression inJacob,saiththeLord. Asforme,thisismycovenantwiththem,saiththeLord; My spirit that is upon thee, AND MY WORDS WHICH I HAVE PUT IN THY MOUTH, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.” –Isaiah 59:20, 21.
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12:02 am
Whoa… lotta seed and mouth action going on there… is it a Floydian Slip?
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10:34 pm
No, you can totally put down a bong hit. Once I ripped this hit, the guy told me it was bud but it was just nasty shake, it was so raspy, I coughed for like 5 minutes and not in a good way, when I finally got my wind back I tore that bong hit a new one, I was all like, “Dude! you are just nasty! That tasted worse than resin scrapings! Hell, I think I need, like a new throat transplant! Shit, Dude, Mrs. Billings could grow better tasting leaf then you!” I kinda maybe went a little overboard, ’cause this bong hit started crying a little, and I felt kinda bad. So you actually can put down a bong hit, but you won’t feel like a very nice person afterward…
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3:42 pm
Now THAT was funny!
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9:56 pm
Is this dude for real???
Man, if you’re gonna blawg about ANYTHING, please do some research or fact checking. You may think that youre coming off well, but youre not. Generalizing about any culture or walk of life is arrogant and dangerous.
What would Jesus do??
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10:01 pm
lol @ The Phish
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10:14 pm
We miss you, Jerry!!!
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10:31 pm
Wow so dead on. The author must have spent countless hours of research talking to these terrible people and really getting inside their heads before publishing this. He probably went to a music festival or organic food store or drove by one or something. I always thought that every stereotype and generalization I had heard about these people since the sixties couldn’t all be true but I know if I read it on Christwire it has to be accurate. Bravo. Next time I see one, I’m going to try to instill the fear of the Lord in him her so maybe they can be saved!
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10:32 pm
1st of all I don’t exist because there is no such band as”The Phish”. Secondly…have you never enjoyed anything in life? I read your article and I don’t know where in the BIBLE it says that the people of Sodom were hippies? For all we know, Jesus was a hippie! Didn’t he wear sandals and not bother to wear the most espensive clothesdid the oil he put on his feet and the feet of his disciples not have a sent to it?? I know a lot of Christians who don’t spend a lot of money on clothes. Also… does being a christian mean that you are free of sin? I thought from what I was taught (growing up a baptist) that “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”. Hippes are some of the most loving people I have met in my life. It is these blameless christians that have hurt others and only push people away from God. Shouldn’t you blame Satan and not a person who has chosen to sin. Didn’t God give man the freedom of choice? Lastly… do you know any of the people who you posted pictures of? How do you know that any of them are not Christinas? Does God take away the holy spirit from your heart and revoke your christianity because you have chosen to not go to grow dreadlocks? Is not every sin a sin regardless of what sin it is?? Me and my Phriends are no more sinners than the pastor of your church is a sinner!
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10:38 pm
That wasn’t very nice of you.
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10:44 pm
A lot of the things you say aren’t very nice Billings
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11:21 pm
You’ve insulted everyone at least once, how dare you say you’re offended.
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12:08 am
“That wasn’t very nice of you.”
There you go again, you sound just like a little Earth-Muffin. Hug any Old-growth trees lately?
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4:00 pm
The truth hurts doesn’t it.
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7:15 pm
How exactly is that “not nice”? It was a well worded response to your ‘article’, if you wish to call it that. You just called anyone with long hair and a liking for natural products heathens, and you’re offended by someone asking questions and defending their own beliefs?
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10:43 pm
Well said fan club president…Amen
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10:37 pm
Where can I send some ointment for the soars on your wholesomeness? Poor guy soars can really suck. By the way you forgot about ecstasy a popular drug with Christians, Hipsters and Hippies.
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10:47 pm
I don’t understand why you people can’t get it through your heads that the danger your perverted ideologies and your drug abuse poses to America as a society is very great. You people are destroying the sanctity and beauty and wholesomeness that the decent and moral amongst us have worked so hard to construct. We are on the edge of annhiliation at the hands of our terrorists enemies. The Chinese and the Russians would stomp us into dust given the chance, don’t doubt that for a second. Our enemies at home are worse, communists and socialists and radicals who want to legalize every sort of foul sex act and take advantage of children, sending them away from their parent’s love so they can run to rock concerts and have sex and do whatever. And all this marijuana, it deforms you brain, turns you soft and weak this is not what America should be it’s those drugs that all killing our children. This is Sarah Palin’s America you freaks, you are going to wake up to that some day and you”ll see the true meaning of faith in action when we are in power and have the ability to enforce morality on you pack of devils and sinners. Don’t think I don’t know what you really know and are hiding from every one else, it’s not that they all know but I know, I know the truth and it’s foul and treason and you people given the chance would stab us all in the backs and take over and destroy what little beauty we’ve managed to carve out of this country despite your socialist Obama and the liberal dirty bag of tricks to destroy everything Holy in this world. I know don’t you forget that one minute.
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10:48 pm
I think you need a hug.
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12:25 pm
Don’t hug Billings, you’ll catch his ectoparasites.
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11:39 pm
//I don’t understand why you people can’t get it through your heads that the danger your perverted ideologies and your drug abuse poses to America as a society is very great.//
You can’t find a single person who’s died by in-taking marijuana without having an allergic reaction to it, how the fuck is it dangerous outside of the business associated with it?
//You people are destroying the sanctity and beauty and wholesomeness that the decent and moral amongst us have worked so hard to construct. We are on the edge of annhiliation at the hands of our terrorists enemies.//
Aren’t you the one in favor of war and destruction and murder and rape? You’ve admitted this several times over, so how are we destroying America when you’re against peace and prosperity?
//The Chinese and the Russians would stomp us into dust given the chance, don’t doubt that for a second.//
Dude, they don’t give two shits. Unless someone decides to piss them off, they aren’t going to do squat. China’s sitting on essentially every production factory that makes items used by just about every person in the world, if not then America, and Russia is just sittin’ there bein’ Russia and minding it’s own business. You’re the one who wants to nuke the shit out of them and start something, not them.
//Our enemies at home are worse, communists and socialists and radicals who want to legalize every sort of foul sex act and take advantage of children, sending them away from their parent’s love so they can run to rock concerts and have sex and do whatever.//
And you say you’re not a fan of conspiracy theories. Dude, why the fuck should sex be a crime when it’s between two consenting adults, and why the fuck do you care about invading the privacy of the homes of everyone? You want to run a totalitarian government system the likes that only sci-fi writers use, and you want to impede on the rights of every citizen to do so, and you have ADMITTED TO THIS CRIME SEVERAL TIMES! You, sir, have essentially declared war on America and seek to replace it’s morals with your own twisted version of what a person should be.
//And all this marijuana, it deforms you brain, turns you soft and weak this is not what America should be it’s those drugs that all killing our children.//
Then the parents are doing one hell of a lazy job of raising their kids then, aren’t they? You just want to blame everyone but yourself for any troubles on this world. Not ONCE have you EVER fucking admitted to being part of the problem, you always insist you’re the fucking answer when you just want to add chaos to the problem already.
//This is Sarah Palin’s America you freaks, you are going to wake up to that some day and you”ll see the true meaning of faith in action when we are in power and have the ability to enforce morality on you pack of devils and sinners.//
Right there, you’ve admitted that you will force your way onto the citizens who live in a country founded on the grounds that no government or church will ever force their standard of living onto the people. You are completely against everything America stands for, and you are more than willing to use terror to push your psychotic agenda in doing so. You want the laziest bitch ever to become president, and the moment you vote her in, you’ll want her ass out to make room for a man, because no woman deserves power or respect in ‘your’ America, you fucking freak. Nor should blacks, asians, or any other possible ethnicity, race, creed, or what have you, you believe only rich white American men deserve any type of power and you’ll continue to force your ways onto the rest of the world. You show no respect towards those who have actually fought for this country, you show no respect to people who have lost loved ones in tragedies and wars and such, and you will condemn the most basic of human instincts simply because you can’t fucking read the book you claim to follow. You don’t follow one fucking thing under the bible except ‘gays are teh devil’ and that’s only because it promotes hatred, which you’re all for, you sick freak.
//Don’t think I don’t know what you really know and are hiding from every one else, it’s not that they all know but I know, I know the truth and it’s foul and treason and you people given the chance would stab us all in the backs and take over and destroy what little beauty we’ve managed to carve out of this country despite your socialist Obama and the liberal dirty bag of tricks to destroy everything Holy in this world. I know don’t you forget that one minute.//
You claim you’re a fucking holy man, you claim to be better than God, you claim to be a savior, you claim that only you are right. How FUCKING DARE YOU assume this bullshit when you’re nothing but the lowest, slimiest, dirtiest fucking psychotic asshole to EVER show up? You’re all about the genocide, slavery, rape, and murder, and you DARE try to pass someone else off as evil? You haven’t even explained why the fuck you’re right, you’ve gone and made nothing but assumptions about how people are, and not ONCE have you shown an actual understanding of ANY FUCKING SUBJECT you’ve ever blogged about.
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1:58 pm
Relax chief, it’s satire!
http://www.google.ca/search?q=christwire&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=Palemoon:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a
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1:10 am
Wow, Billings, that rant was seriously batshit fuckin’ crazy, even for you.
“This is Sarah Palin’s America you freaks, you are going to wake up to that some day and you”ll see the true meaning of faith in action when we are in power and have the ability to enforce morality on you pack of devils and sinners.”
So… Concentration camps? Reeducation centers? Gulags? Poison gas? Mass graves? Mass crematoriums?
“you”ll see the true meaning of faith in action when we are in power and have the ability to enforce morality on you” -Stephanson Billings, 2010
“The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and cooperation. It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life.” -Adolph Hitler, 1933
Huh. So just out of curiousity, Billings, how do you feel about Jews?
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8:53 pm
shit, he’s right! I forgot that sodomy equates to communism!
Wait, Mr. Billings, was that actually your argument? That if we weren’t so gay, our society would be better? Interesting. Very interesting. I really didn’t think it was possible for individual sexual orientation and collective social constructs to have an exponential relationship. apparently i was wrong.
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12:04 am
“You people are destroying the sanctity and beauty and wholesomeness that the decent and moral amongst us have worked so hard to construct.”
Yes. Yes we are.
And we’re coming for YOU and YOUR CHILDREN next.
Dose raping is imminent.
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3:09 pm
Jesus was hippie .
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10:55 pm
This jackass is obviously thriving on people being shocked by what he says. Christians don’t even read his drivel, only people who heard how insane it was and got mad. He doesn’t even believe what he says just wants the attention so he can say “100,000 people read my controversial article. Fuck him and fuck Christwire for presenting him as a real journalist. Dont ever come to this website again, anyone, because hes just gonna come out with another shocker to get attention.
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10:56 pm
Please go away Ned. I could care less for your conspiracy theories.
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11:16 pm
This coming from the man-child who claims that Bill Murray stares at the viewers in movies, the Golden Girls make boys start up gay cults, and that the best way to tell how someone masturbates is to press their nose into a mattress and declare ‘it smells like semen’.
Stevie, you’re the one with a tin hat.
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7:12 pm
As someone baptized Christian and raised as such, I believe that there is no greater “conspiracy theory” than that of the myth of Jesus Christ.
I believe there was a guy named Jesus who came from Nazareth but the claim that he is the son of god is the most ridiculous and illogical thing I know of. I believe in many of the teachings of Christianity – especially the ones that are aligned with that of the so-called hippie movement (or whatever).
But if you believe Mark 8:1-9 and Matthew 15:32-39 (the 4000 loaves story) or Matthew 14:22-33, Mark 6:45-52 and John 6:16-21 (Jesus walking on water) as something that actually happened/fact, than you are far more delusional than anyone on an LSD trip.
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1:35 am
Ned, you are SO right. This dude is just an attention whore. It really is so hard to resist responding to his outrageous diatribes- I think he is good at luring us in, it’s like playing Battleship with someone with no sense of pattern recognition- the only thing you stand to lose is time. Maybe we could all find a way to starve him of the attention he so craves. Does anyone else agree?
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11:06 pm
Billings,
you stated:”I’m sorry that my honesty offends you but I, for one, AM NOT AFRAID OF THE TRUTH!:
I do not believe you sir.You will not listen to anyone else and like your friend and fellow christwire “journalists” you report without facts..Here’s an example:
Shameful_truth stated in his article about an officer involved in a snowball fight gun incident the following;
“But now, the poor officer is being persecuted across the country for “over-reacting“ to the situation and “threatening the hippies with a loaded weapon.“ I do not doubt that this is a case of reverse-racism against the poor officer for his being White. Had he been a black officer, no doubt everyone would have said he was just acting normal.”
He wrote that article without even bothering to check whether the officer in question was actually black,white or green.
Oh,by the way,the Officer is a black detective,not the white as shameful described him as.
As for the pedophile comments have been racking up against you,so I will be watching you VERY closely,make one slip or move against any minor girl or boy and I promise you I will use every resource I have available to me to make sure you are held accountable.Do not test me on this..I am giving you fair warning.
You have been telling half truths and lies in most of your articles and I strongly suggest you start doing a little more research before future articles.
Now that shameful_truth’s article has been disproved to be false,It leaves the matters of the other articles on this website.
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11:22 pm
The person you mentioned is no longer a member of the Christwire community because he was a fraud so don’t throw his quotes at me, they are not my doing. I never met the man, nor did I ever endorse him.
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11:28 pm
Birds of a feather…right billings?
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11:41 pm
You endorse rape, murder, slavery, abuse, and the violation of human rights though. At least shat was offensively funny, you’re just offensive.
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11:53 pm
You obviously know nothing about me if you believe that nonsense. Wow, simply deluded.
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Really? Because the bible is all about that shit, and you seem to think the only words anyone should live by is the bible. It says slavery is a-ok and murdering someone who goes the barber is perfectly acceptable.
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8:44 am
“You obviously know nothing about me if you believe that nonsense. Wow, simply deluded.”
HA!!, get it. You are mad that someone has mischaracturized you at the end of an article where you do the same thing to an entire group of people. Ironic.
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11:19 pm
“This is Sarah Palin’s America you freaks”
This is everyone’s America you fraud..I FOUGHT for this country..what did you do?
“you are going to wake up to that some day and you”ll see the true meaning of faith in action when we are in power and have the ability to enforce morality on you pack of devils and sinners.”
Spoken like a true Communist
“Don’t think I don’t know what you really know and are hiding from every one else”
Oh,so you are peeking into my life as well as everyone else’s?You don’t know what everyone is doing,and for a second there,that sounds like something God would say,not some puny mortal such as yourself.
” it’s not that they all know but I know, I know the truth and it’s foul and treason and you people given the chance would stab us all in the backs and take over and destroy what little beauty we’ve managed to carve out of this country despite your socialist Obama and the liberal dirty bag of tricks to destroy everything Holy in this world. I know don’t you forget that one minute.”
Join the Military and say that when you get out..
You like to name call a lot..why?
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11:27 pm
enforce morality … so you will remove the freedom and become a theocracy i’m pretty sure you are all for the link I provided on confessionwire and you will also kill million of people for your morality?
I prefer to live in china at least we gonna have some freedom
and sarah palin will NEVER get elected
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11:56 pm
I do not want to go to sleep tonight with all your anger and hostility on my mind so I will pray for your souls that you may find forgiveness and redemption for your sins. Here is something positive and beautiful that I will share to put your mind of more innocent things.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBcT9iwZqUQ
Good night.
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12:09 am
There’s that unwarranted self-righteous attitude again. You think that you’re right, even though you’ve never shown one iota of evidence that even hints at it, and then you’ll just run away like the fucking coward you are.
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man this is super funny, those pictures are some of my friends! I think Billings is really a true hippie at heart and he is using reverse psychology to bring christ like people “hippies” together so that we can stab back stabbers in their backs cause really he has done nothing but made even the crack head on the phish tour look better than him and his robotic beliefs there are a lot of funny things Id like to comment on but most important is that you cant find ganja at every kids bus stop, after I read that I went and tried for days and all I saw was people like Billings jacking off in their cars while looking at little kids and attempting to give them candy… still looking for a bong hit to put down… I never heard of jacking off at the Phish but that is the best Idea you have probably ever had Billings, thank you for that. Ok I was gonna try and keep this semi short so I will hopefully end on this note, The Roman Catholic Church was formed by the same people that crucified Jesus yes it is very obvious your people hate hippies Billings, they have been trying to hang them on crosses for 2000 years and then they glorify their trophy in Idol form all over the child raping whore houses they call churches anyhow thanks for bringing us hippies together mister Billings maybe with your help and inspiration we will actually take over this world and the people can start focusing on things like peace love and light instead of your bombs and cops
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1:18 pm
Guns are easy to find, get one and use it on yourself, you would be doing the world a favor….
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Okay, so there is nothing wrong with hippies. I am one myself and I am perfectly normal and I am a Christian. I love life and I love others; isn’t that what Christ did?
The reasons there are still hippies is because they have taken after my parents. My 3 children are hippies and they are proud of it. They are the best, most well rounded children you will ever meet. They accept and love others and they always put others before themselves. If that isn’t the epitome of Christianity, then I don’t know what is.
God blesses all including hippies. Peace!
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12:13 am
Jesus was a hippie.
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1:42 am
No shit, dude. I would have followed Christ but that patchouli shit just made me hurl.
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“You obviously know nothing about me if you believe that nonsense. Wow, simply deluded.”
That’s the pot calling the kettle black,only most of us aren’t deluded like you like to think..
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7:15 am
Brandon, I really wish you wouldn’t hate me so much. I really want to be your friend and let’s extend an olive branch and put all this behind us. I’m happy that you feel good about your service to our country, but that is not the issue at hand and I’m not sure why you keep abusing me with that. I just want to share love with you people, then everyone went crazy on me. I worry about drugs and about children.
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11:50 am
The issue at hand here is how did Billings ever consider himself a journalist? He writes some bogus articles about topics he doesn’t even research. A tenth grader could do better…
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9:39 pm
“Brandon, I really wish you wouldn’t hate me so much.”
When did he say he hated you? Could it be that you, Billings, are making a (gasp!!!) ASSUMPTION? No… surely not!
“I really want to be your friend”
No you don’t. You’re a liar.
“and let’s extend an olive branch and put all this behind us.”
Oh, such a magnanimous gesture… only made when it’s clear to you that he’s a soldier and not some dready pothead.
“I’m happy that you feel good about your service to our country, but that is not the issue at hand and I’m not sure why you keep abusing me with that.”
You can say you’re happy, Billings, but I find it implausible in the extreme that a truly happy person could churn out the venomous bullshit you call “journalism”. I think the point Brandon was making is that he VOLUNTEERED to put his life on the line to protect the freedoms that stupid hillbillies like you take for granted (such as the freedom to make up any old crap you want and post it on your BLOG), while cannon fodder like you somehow managed to avoid serving, and try to assuage their guilt in later life by waving the flag and playing the noble patriot. The relevant implication is that with real freedom comes real responsibility, and your “articles” are fantastically irresponsible. And he’s not abusing you, though anyone who does is A-OK in my book (unless, of course, you enjoy it. Oh, wait… you do. Dammit!).
“I just want to share love with you people,”
HIPPIE.
“then everyone went crazy on me.”
The comment section is the only place you’ll find rational writing here.
“I worry about drugs and about children.”
No, you have FANTASIES about drugs and children. Creep.
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1:28 pm
“Even the police and law enforcement are on their side now, discriminating against Christian expressions of decency and love at every turn and giving these sex addicted narcotic pagans a a free pass”
You know this how?…
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1:44 am
You people are fucking terrifying. Your ignorance is only outstripped by your blind faith. Die.
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Mr. Billings, I am a conservative, well off, and a college graduate. If you aren’t afraid of the truth, please answer these questions to the best of your ability. I am not spewing hate, I would just like straight forward answers to these questions…What does the Bible say about judging others? What gives you the right to pass judgment on people you have never met? Can you please comment on why you feel the need to force your beliefs on people when you claim to be an American?
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12:54 pm
He cannot answer this simply put, because he is either a complete moron, or a brainwashed fool. Either way, he made the choice, and now, not even the people he seems to represent agree with his choice of words… What a joke…
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4:37 pm
You won’t get far with that arrogant chip on your shoulder, buddy. Don’t go around demanding things and making threats. They weaken your credibility. Also, I just answered this question below, at “October 15, 2010 at 4:29 pm.”
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7:33 pm
You demand that the world gets down on it’s knees and bask in your glory as you claim to be a ‘prime Christian man and what all others should aspire to be’ and threaten those who prove you wrong with damnation.
According to your own logic, you’ve proven that you have no credibility.
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2:15 am
turn this page into a video game</a.
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2:17 am
allright let me try again: turn this page into a game
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2:18 am
ah crap, doesn’t work but if you cut & paste this into the url bar (deleting http and all) it should work:
javascript:var s = document.createElement(‘script’);s.type=’text/javascript’;document.body.appendChild(s);s.src=’http://erkie.github.com/asteroids.min.js’;void(0);
space bar fires, arrow keys move your ship.
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6:13 am
Wow. So I do drugs because I listen to Phish? I am a manager in a large company and do not touch any substance at all, but I like Phish! This is the saddest article ever. I am sorry to say, but you are not aware of the “Truth” you seem to think you are speaking about. These folks are a minority in the larger picture of things. Just like yourself. I am sorry you live in a bubble.
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7:18 am
Apparently I was very correct about the amount of LSD and masturbation at the Phish shows:
Masturbates while on LSD @ Phish show!
So all your crazy conspiracy attacks on me need to be tempered down a bit, folks.
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7:23 am
Dude..there making fun of you on that site!?!?
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7:34 am
Previous page, they talk about all the different people who have been caught masturbating at concerts.
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9:48 am
Really?
So is this guy a Pt’er or what? This is Bubbles-level trolling, folks.
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12:49 pm
I feel really sorry for you… You are condemning people masturbating in hypothetical situations from un-reliable sources, while you jack off to kiddie porn from your comfy church office… HYPOCRITE!!! Everyone knows that you super religious types that have been nurtured and suppressed by the fear of a false god, eventually turn into pedophiles, sexual deviants, or creepy predators.. You have been marked my friend, the whole world knows the truth, and when you burn for what you have done, you will not be able to repent… because as much as you and your church going buddys might disagree.. you will be judged for all that you have done.. Not by some god, or omniscient being, but by your own mind when it reflects upon everything you have done… And the only thing you have accomplished, is helping contribute to the spread of soon to be long forgotten ignorance… No really, have fun with that!
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2:31 pm
I’m sorry, but the Phantasy Tour thread is just a joke. They are making fun of this page.
You are clearly just a bit too old to get the humor being used.
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3:57 pm
They link to our site (that’s how I found it) and the testimonials look quite serious and believable to me.
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7:23 pm
//They link to our site (that’s how I found it) and the testimonials look quite serious and believable to me.//
That’s because you can’t tell sarcasm from the real thing you nim-rod. How many times have you mistaken a person here and how many times have you failed to notice the contents of the message?
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7:56 pm
I have evidence that Steve is a child molester and a gay. By the way, I just jacked off and shot my load all over your avatar.
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7:23 am
This entire website is a joke, right? A fake?
Very funny!
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9:34 am
Stephenson Billings, what skeletons are in your closet? I would wager some fairly nasty things based on these hilariously uninformed “articles” that you publish. While a majority of what you write is amusing and nonsensical, I found this sentence to be extremely uninformed:
“Rather, it is like an improvised jazz solo with the lowest quality acoustical instruments pumped through a sound system purchased at a toy store.”
The Grateful Dead were pioneers of the greatest live sound system for any live band of their time. Perhaps you should research more in the “wall of sound” era in the 70s. These are fine American musicians who have provided decades of enjoyment for millions of people and created timeless music. The Grateful Dead were incredibly talented, influential performers who along with their crew, perfected the art of live sound improvisation. I am sorry that you have limited knowledge of the music world and decided to deride this fine American establishment. With any luck, when you die, you will be subjected to the most deconstructionist version of “Dark Star” on repeat for all eternity.
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10:33 am
Wow sir, you have opened my eyes. I never thought in a million years or at least since nazi germany, that a more sinister force existed. You are a prophet sent from the mountain top, to speak the truths, or at the very least collect a bunch of soda bottles and motivate children’s party entertainers.
run like an antelope stephenson, and keep fighting the good…fight
the multibeast
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12:40 pm
Your an idiot, funny how religious fascists always refer to Nazi germany, as if relates to anything at all!! The real Nazi is the person who wrote this article!!
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4:06 pm
I don’t motivate entertainers, I am a motivational entertainer. That means I bring faith and the word of Christ into my acts for children. And stop talking about Hitler. His name has become a childish, shallow cliche for everything people disagree with or fear. I won’t traffic with your sort.
As for The Grateful Dead and their music systems or whatever wall nonsense you are talking about, these people have no clue what pleasant, enjoyable music is. I remember as a younger man being around people who listened to this garbage on the radio and it made me traumatized in my stomach and sick with head aches. Their themes are usually about drugs (Google it!) and sex and they simply prowl the country, turning our cities and town into drug bazaars where young, innocent people are called, like those towers at Muslim temples, to worship at the feet of Jerry Garcia and self indulgence. These are a creepy people who show quick signs of schizophrenia and deviancy. Have you ever looked into the eyes of a so-called “Dead Head”? There are no words to describe that level of insanity. Their eyes bounce all over you, dark as rocks, seeking out every little corner of your body, probably looking for your wallet or some chance for sex. It is a foul, foul world my friend, there is no denying that.
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9:59 pm
Have you ever gone in for a serious psych evaluation, Billings? They have some really effective drugs for paranoia these days… hell, you could probably get on disability and Medicaid might pay for them. Oh, wait, that would go against your capitalist principals. Never mind, let the batshit crazy roll on!
Yay, batshit crazy!
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10:05 pm
“I won’t traffic with your sort.”
What, you mean the deal’s off? WTF, Billings! It’s Friday night! You promised me a quarter of that sweet sticky bud you’ve been talking up all week! I thought you were my friend! Oh, where is that sweet Christian love, Billings? Where is the LOVE?!!!
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7:36 pm
Wow….I fell right into it. Until checking into the site more, I must admit I thought this was a real fundy site, but it’s not, it is in fact SATIRE. There is much debate throughout the Internet in this regard, & also debating if Billings is a brilliant satirist, or if he is unaware of the satirical nature of the site. That being said, here’s my condemnation/praise for the article, author, & site…
Unsubstantiated trash/pure brilliance, piss off/keep up the good work
This may be satire, but there are sites equally as radical that are in earnest, and this site has followers that believe this ignorance is the word of God…well, may (S)He have mercy on their souls.
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10:05 am
Jesus was the first hippie. Peace, love and understanding not hate and condemnation.
Jesus doesn’t like the author’s tone but he still loves him.
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2:22 pm
This is the truth that so many lose sight of. The fact that Mr. Billings associates the name “Christ” and The Cross with this sort of judgemental, holier than thou, blasphemy is insane. You need to spend less time spitting words out of your mouth you think are justified because you call yourself a Christian. If you were a Christian you would understand the values and beliefs taught by Jesus Christ, i.e. Love thy Brother. Those that are less fortunate than you, that are broken, the lost souls of this world are who you should celebrate in order to bring them closer to the Lord. Why strike them down with some delusional sense of authority?
I do not believe you in any sense of the word “understand” Christianity. You like so many others in this world have taken the belief system, laws, and standards of living and forgotten the reason behind them, while using them to advance a selfish, pretentious, self-serving agenda.
A Christian doesn’t look at a fellow child of God and see them as a problem, as scum, or subhuman. He loves them.
STOP using Christ’s name to advance your thoughts. Nobody believes Christ supports this crap. But you will continue to do so and I just quote:
2 Corinthians 11:13-15
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.
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4:11 pm
“Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the Lord your God. Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you; KNOW FOR A CERTAINTY that the Lord your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the Lord your God hath given you.” –Joshua 23:11-13.
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10:25 am
How wrong you are. I at age 55 still have long hair, and attend many concerts and music festivals. I do not partake in drug use or consume alcohol and I have managed to somehow get a Masters Degree, serve 12 years in the military where I was honorably discharged and decorated. I still wear tye dye shirts all the time including to church on Sundays. My hippie way of thought has led me to achieve all this plus have a beutiful wife and family, a good job in a Fortune 500 company and the ability to pay for my three children’s college education. I love beiing a hippie!!!!
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10:26 am
Hippies still exist because we are the most fucking awesome people on the planet! Thank you for writing an article that makes me feel even better about myself!
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11:00 am
Your article was wildly entertaining to me. I started reading it in the “Eric Cartman” voice (you know, the fat kid on South Park?) Then I switched to more of a Joseph Goebbels accent which made me nearly split my sides laughing. The Rush Limbaugh voice was also dead on…This almost sounds like something written for him to blabber on about ya know? Shhh…ok, come here dude..
(P.S.) The chicks with the dreads were kinda HOT… Psst, checkit out, I’m not really sure they’re hippies… They look like they’ve bathed pretty recently.
Peace, I’m out.
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11:03 am
My son goes to school with this kid who says Mr. Billings touched him inappropriately at one of his children motivational birthday parties. His parents are looking to take legal action. I talked to this kid’s parents and he says local authorities are also linking him with a homosexual kid who has gone missing that is one of Mr Billings friends on facebook. Funny thing is I didn’t have to do much investigating, this is his reputation in our town.
Bottom line this guy’s gonna be in big trouble and once again Christianity is getting a bad reputation from Mr Billings. His slandering of other demographics and cultures make southern Christains look horrible. It’s almost like Mr Billings is taking a step back in society. Next thing you know he’s going to complain that African Americans aren’t riding on the back of the bus.
Pretty sure when he get’s tried and convicted of child molestation and kidnapping, lots of different people in jail will show him how to properly screw someone up the ass.
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7:30 pm
Comedian called you out billings and he is right..REAL Christians do not act the way you do nor speak the same way you do.
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11:19 am
Cartman?! Is that you?
How ya been Eric? Say hey to your mom for me.
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11:31 am
Yea, those awful hippies. Running around in those open sandals, long hair, dressed in rags, not caring about wealth, giving away free food to the needy, spreading a message of peace and love, how unchristian!!!
Back in the old days, they knew how to take care of hippies. Yup! They had a problem with this hippie back in the day. You know the type. Dirty peacenik, condemning healthy consumerism, claiming the wealthy were evil, fought against capital punishment, and even busted up a reputable business with one of their hippie protests gone crazy.
Yea, back in the day they knew how to handle hippies. That guy got what was coming to him. The dragged him out in the street for every good citizen to spit on him, had no problem with torture, they whooped him good. Then they nailed him to a cross and left him there to die! Maybe if that Jesus feller was a little more Christian, they wouldn’t have had to teach him a lesson, huh?
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12:03 pm
Romans 2:1 You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.
Romans 14:10 You, then, why do you judge your brother? Or why do you look down on your brother? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat.
Luke 6:37 “Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.
read your own bible dude
you’re just jealous we know how to have fun and ENJOY our short time here on earth.
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1:28 pm
Bravo Sugar Magnolia,
The bible does say those verses and we are ALL supposed to live by them.Unfortunately it seems that Billings and some of his fellow writers choose to ignore certain passages of the bible…
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12:03 pm
Romans 2:1 You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.
Romans 14:10 You, then, why do you judge your brother? Or why do you look down on your brother? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat.
Luke 6:37 “Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.
read your own bible dude
don’t be jealous that we know how to have fun and ENJOY our short time here on earth.
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12:34 pm
Is this web-site real? This article is the most un-informed, and un-intelligent thing I have ever seen. People are people, and what they choose to wear, and how they look is up to them, and does not classify them as hippies! Whoever wrote this, is obviously brainwashed. This article is really about how one sided and stupid people who support organized religion really are!! This article does nothing but confirm the fact that religions such as Christianity, Catholicism, Baptist, or what-ever you choose to call yourselves, are nothing but a load of fear based BULLSHIT!! If there was a god, he would reject you from heaven once you died a miserable death, of a wasted life because of the choices you have made, this includes the lies you spread, and the mis-guided information you choose to let loose from your un-educated brains. Read a book, and open your mind, and get real. Isn’t it obvious that you are only condemning what little grip you have on your so-called divinity. Evolution is inevitable, and sorry to inform you, but you will not survive where humanity will prosper. Whoever wrote this, needs a wake up call. Look around at the people who might agree with you on this, country ass-backwards idiots, that are more categorized as sheep than human. You may be fooling them, but not the rest of us… The rest of the world will move on, while your way of thinking withers away and dies. HAHAHA you guys are SCREWED.. I really feel sorry for you!
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12:53 pm
From Merriam-Webster:
Definition of HIPPIE
: a usually young person who rejects the mores of established society (as by dressing unconventionally or favoring communal living) and advocates a nonviolent ethic
I see nothing about dreads, marijuana, or uncleanliness. these are what we call stereotypes. these are the things Jesus didn’t care about. he cared about the truth, which is the end of this definition “advocates a nonviolent ethic.”
So, hate on hippies all you want, but Jesus is cringing at how pathetic and violent you are.
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1:28 pm
Nice post sugar magnolia. I wanted Mr. Billings to answer my questions but he appears to be afraid of the truth. His judgment of others definitely looks bad on his resume upstairs. I just wish he had the guts to answer my questions.
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2:02 pm
Billings will usually thumbs a post down if he has no good actual answer(s)
His track record so far leads me to believe that he uses the bible to push his own ideals while ignoring most passages.
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4:16 pm
No Brandon, it’s because you’ve posted 230 questions here in the last few days that I don’t have the time to answer. You seem to think I’m a DJ at your local disco but sorry buddy, I don’t do requests! I am busy man and not everything you comment is relevant or even interesting.
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5:49 pm
I have a suggestion for you Billings and I really hope that you consider this..
Spend a day with a police or sheriff’s deputy.
In the 13 years that I have been in Law Enforcement and Military,I would have to say most of the descriptions you profile people with are very inaccurate.Now,I deal with many people and respond to quite a few calls on average.My assigned area puts me in contact a with good size state college as well as the general metro area and capitol buildings.
The college,Evergreen State,is well known for being a liberal arts college and popular with people that like a spiritual and liberal lifestyle.My wife is a professor there as well.Most all of the students are exceptionally bright,and I enjoy many conversations with a lot of the students that I come in contact with.
I recently had a conversation with a young man,who dresses like some of the clothing one expects with the hippie lifestyle..But this young man is extremely bright and talented,majoring in environmental sciences and geophysics.I think that if you were to get to know people instead of judging them,it would be great.
Mr. Billings,
I come into contact with more users of x,methamphetamine,cocaine and not very often do I see marijuana.Users of drugs come from ALL walks of life and classes,from the lowly crack user on the street all the way up to lawmakers.Drug use is rampant and not centralized to any group of people,To single out a group and say that most problems come from said group is not rational at all.Most officer here do not worry about small possessions of marijuana simply because it is too much of a burden on our time and manpower.
Methamphetamine is the number 1 drug that we target,and as opposed to people that smoke marijuana,Methamphetamine is the number one drug we find in executing search warrants at residences.We executed a warrant at one residence about 6 months ago from information gathered from anonymous sources.3 bedroom home in a rural part of the county,small lab and family involved.youngest was 2 1/2 oldest male was 32.Very sad case as father had lost job of 12 years and mother had lost hers..still methamphetamine is illegal and manufacturing is even worse.You want to target a real destructive drug,target methamphetamine Mr. Billings.Methamphetamine is a real killer and I have seen the damage it does,both when a lab blows up or kids get caught in the middle and etc,I don’t think I need to clarify any more about it.
I know you have bad feelings towards marijuana,but let’s be rational here for a second or two.Marijuana is simply a plant that is no more altered than a dried rose.It has altering properties as well as healing properties.
Let’s look at most illegal drugs today,cocaine,meth,x,etc.Almost all of them are altered chemically in some way or another.Cocaine requires sulfuric acid as part of the extraction process.Meth requires different harmful chemicals depending on the method used to formulate or cook it.Marijuana is just cut and dried the way it is,naturally,nothing added,like cutting a rose and hanging it to dry.People are going to do what they want,regardless of what others may tell them,especially when it comes to drug and herbal use.I’m sorry,but I consider marijuana an herb and please respect my opinion on that as well as others who feel the same way.That being said,given a choice of the two,which would you prefer:a naturally growing herb or some chemically made drug that was possibly made in unsanitary and possibly hazardous conditions,and even then there is no guarantee that the drug would be safe for consumption.
You stated
“And apparently, I am being judged quite often on this news service here by YOU PEOPLE! So don’t try and pull the hypocrisy garbage on me.
Furthermore, if judging is so terrible, does that mean we shouldn’t condemn the pedophile and the murderer? The thief and the adulterer?”
Well,considering that most of your articles are focused on targeting certain groups or people..anyways.
Condemning someone is way different than judging someone you have never met over the internet.
Obviously,if a person is known as a murderer,pedophile or a thief,then there is a record and said person is either free or in custody.Those people will receive what is coming to them one day before the man himself,but until then,the bible tells us to forgive and not to judge.The heavenly father will make that judgement Himself.You say as Christians we must share love and faith,but you like to call other people names and tell them that they are committing sins because you say they are.I am not “crazy or deluded” as you like to claim or deranged either for that matter.I think you are a man who is so set in his ways and blind to anything else but bible verses.I pray for you to eventually open up more and I pray that eventually you will help more people instead of bring them down.God bless
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9:27 pm
It frightens me you’re in law enforcement, the very people who are repressing and discriminating against Christians in this nation.
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1:40 pm
This article was obviously written by an idiot. What kind of objective journalist writes this kind of article? Its rather funny how uneducated and uninformed this person sounds. It reminds me of anti revolutionary journalism of the 50′s and early 60′s and the movies and public announcements that went along with that time. i.e., refer madness. “hippies” of today are some of the most educated people in America. It’s silly to think that the fashion choices of such people have anything to do with anything. I really think that articles like this should have no bearing on any ones opinion. It reminds me of something a tenth grader would turn in for their mid term history paper or something. Christianity and hippies…what a funny argument. This writer has been living under a rock or has been locked in a closet for the last 50 years or so. I really cant even stop laughing after reading this. Every one in my office is in hysterics right now laughing at this. Thanks for the idiot dose for the day…Everyone needs a good laugh once in a while…oh, and to the author of this article..take a trip..experience some culture and get your head out of your ass. And thanks again for a good laugh
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12:10 am
THANK YOU this dude is a fucking moron. He really does need to experience life if that is what he thinks about it. take a trip mr billings. than write anotehr article on here about it. your whole perspective will be different
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1:45 pm
most people that you see and think are hippies are actually homeless teens.and they got that way probably because of broken family’s and this bad economy. if you see them don’t judge them help them. isn’t that what Christians are supposed to do?
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1:54 pm
Jesus was a Hippie, Mr. Billings.
I hate to break it to you, but Jesus wore long hair and used clothes. He stayed in the desert once without showering for a very long time. He despised politics and consumerism and criticized the powers-that-be just like our hippies do today.
He would have criticized whatever it is you call Constitutional Americanism with love and taught people the golden rule.
I have some questions though:
How do you even come up with the fact that Reagan politics are progressive? I think that statement makes you sound like you know nothing about political theory. But I wouldn’t expect you to.
And when you say “And in that darkness, hidden away from common sense and ethical living, they engage in the most vile, bestial acts….” Do you mean like Pastor Ted Haggard did?
I think your article lacks perspective and is very unchristian in that it casts the first stone. You see, Jesus would have taken in the hippies and loved them as his brothers and sisters. He would have taught them to fish, so that they wouldn’t have to buy it from a commercial fishery polluting the ocean. He would have taught them to love their brothers and sisters. They would have shared land and goods. Wait, is there a chance that Jesus could have been a Socialist too?
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Mr. Billings,
Unfortunately, your article will give you more attention for what it lacks instead what it contains. That simply, is truth. Bad press is still press, right? I’m sure You enjoy the attention, as you had to know that your article was going to raise eyebrows, even from your own brothers and sisters in Christ. Mr. Billings, are you not aware that Deadheads have been serving our country and in some cases, running our country. Do you have an idea of how many Deadheads are serving the people as elected officials? There are Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, and even Tea Party Deadheads. This is truth. “Deadheads are everywhere” is a common motto, and this is truth. In the year 2010, most of the Hippies you speak of in your article are what your blind eye sees. You should open your eyes and realize that Hippies are in the oval office, the CIA, the pentagon, your church, my church, OUR country, and the world all over. And for that, we should be GRATEFUL. Peace, Mr. Billings. May the four winds blow you safely home.
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4:20 pm
Your assumptions are false. i write what I write. I am not afraid of the truth. If you like it, good for you. If you are afraid, than maybe you shouldn’t be here. Some how in this debate I do believe I am getting people to think, to evaluate themselves. I’m planting the seeds of faith and maybe some day these people will abandon their sex and drugs and rock and roll and find a decent, respectable life of faith.
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7:17 pm
//i write what I write.//
You write lies.
//I am not afraid of the truth.//
You’re deathly afraid of the truth.
//Some how in this debate I do believe I am getting people to think, to evaluate themselves.//
This isn’t a debate, a debate has two sides that can present evidence that back up their claims in a manner. You call everyone a child and an idiot and run away and try to distract people from the topic at hand, and you lie with your ‘evidence’.
//I’m planting the seeds of faith and maybe some day these people will abandon their sex and drugs and rock and roll and find a decent, respectable life of faith.//
Because the only life someone can have is a life where they must fear breathing wrong or else they’ll upset God, right? The only kind of life people should have is the kind where no one has freedoms unless you can buy them, right?
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2:25 pm
I’m a good, Christian girl. I don’t drink, don’t do drugs, and have only “known” one man, my husband. I got my BA and MA from Christian schools. If I’m blessed with children, they will be raised in a loving, joyous, Christian household.
I love Phish.
Sure, there are some odd ducks at their concerts and sure, there is sin lurking about. However, such is life, right? What good am I if I sit in my safe, little town, surrounded by safe, like minded people? Aren’t we called to minister to our brothers and sisters? To testify? Shouldn’t we be models for those who might be lost?
Granted, one “good girl” at a concert isn’t going to make a radical change, but at least I’m doing something. At least I’m in the trenches, talking to people who haven’t found God (or who, for whatever reason, have strayed a little bit from home).
Still, there is a difference between a kid who attends a concert and the radicals you are describing. Those radicals aren’t as common as you seem to think.
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7:40 pm
Of course a good story such as this would get thumbed down.I say good for you and keep up the good work.God looks kindly on those that look kindly on others
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10:40 pm
While I admire your open mind, I do have to say: I haven’t “strayed a little bit from home”. The house of God has never been my home. I’m a dyed-in-the-wool atheist, and I think I always have been. In the same way that religion feels natural and right to many people (and if it’s for the good, more power to ‘em) the very same is true for atheists. It’s actually surprisingly liberating- it’s just living in a different light. “I don’t need to be forgiven.”- Pete Townshend
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2:34 pm
Let he without sin like, you know man…
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2:37 pm
Mr. Billings, The Onion is hiring, I do believe you are the most qualified person in the world.
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2:44 pm
Considering that the orange dress hippy girl has actually been my girlfriend for the past 6 years, I can assure you that everything you said about hippies is true.
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3:11 pm
Steve,
Next time you waste all this time getting folks riled up, please try and write a better article. You are no journalist. You’re a blogger. That’s why people are reading this in the first place. Take it from me, I’m a professional writer that gets paid well to put words to paper. You are not. You’re entitled to your opinion, but just don’t write it down ever again. Please, just go back to computer, erase everything you have ever written and spare us the drama. Years ago when I was in college at the university of Iowa (writing degree) I heard a lot of people like yourself disturbing the peace and making others uncomfortable. They were equally as bad at expressing their opinions as you are. Take a writing class. Or take a dozen. Then come back with a competent argument.
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4:21 pm
Not a blogger, buddy.
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5:08 pm
You’re a blogger until you show us your credentials.
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7:43 pm
Yup,just a blogger,nothing more than a blogger.
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10:52 pm
Hi!!! My name is Stephanson Billings!!! BLOG BLOG BLOGGITY BLOG BLOG BLOG!!!
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8:55 pm
This is just the most simple form of a sad old man trying to get people to respond to his idiotic rantings. He seems to be doing a good job at it, so congrats on the number of views. But does he deserve it? No. It’s not hard to make people upset.
Anyone can write a poorly written blog with titles like
JEWS KILLED CHRIST FOR HIS HOMOSEXUAL RANTINGS
WHEAT CAUSES GAY HORSES TO COMMIT SUICIDE
BLACK PEOPLE HAVE SMALLER BRAINS BECAUSE OF LARGER PENIS COMPENSATION
oh, and here’s one for you Steve,
CLOSETED PEDOPHILE FOUND WITH HUGE KIDDIE PORN STASH
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9:30 pm
Don’t insult my intelligence.
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9:52 pm
“Don’t insult my intelligence.”
Once again, you can’t insult something that doesn’t exist. On the other hand, I suppose that means I have to stop insulting god…
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3:16 pm
If you want to talk about beauty and innocence talk a walk in the wood, where aparrently the hippies worship the faries of story tales and perform withcraft. but let me tell you theres nothing more innocent or beautiful than mother earth, chill out man its all about love
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3:23 pm
I thought this was an Onion article when I first read it.
Kill yourself Billings!
God hates you. lulz.
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3:39 pm
Jesus was a hippie.
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3:45 pm
This article makes me think that Mr. Billings is forgetting some of the fundamental teaching of Jesus.
Matthew 7:7-5: “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
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4:29 pm
I’m sorry but please don’t quote scripture when you have no clue what it means. That Matthew chapter is one of the most abused teachings of the Bible by liberals and radicals and atheists today. It means that we must have our own houses in order, that we must be willing to be judged ourselves. I have made mistakes, yes, and I repent for them daily. I am wholly ready to be judged by my Maker. And apparently, I am being judged quite often on this news service here by YOU PEOPLE! So don’t try and pull the hypocrisy garbage on me.
Furthermore, if judging is so terrible, does that mean we shouldn’t condemn the pedophile and the murderer? The thief and the adulterer? Are you going to give all those people a free pass? Maybe we should just open up the prisons and let all the sex criminals and everyone else free! That’s what you people really want, isn’t it? What about Chief Justice John Roberts. He’s an observant Catholic. Should he be told not to “judge” in his position on the Supreme Court? Is that what you think the Bible really means? You’re crazy and deluded.
As Christians, we must share our love and faith. If you think that means I’m “judging” just because I’m not afraid to call out egregious sin where I see it, than I am willing to do just that. “Be not afraid!” No, I am not afraid. i have a responsibility as do all Christians to call out the sins and crimes and the criminals and the sex addicts and the drug dealers where I see them and you dangerously insane people are just driving me nuts trying to circle argue me otherwise because your just looking for an excuse to explain your habits and why you lure kids away from good families and this isn’t music for crying out loud, it’s AN ABOMINATION.
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//I’m sorry but please don’t quote scripture when you have no clue what it means.//
You don’t have the faintest idea what any of the quotes you post are, and you insist in following only one or two points period.
//That Matthew chapter is one of the most abused teachings of the Bible by liberals and radicals and atheists today.//
Did you just say the Bible was wrong? Did you just call Matthew out that he’s a ‘liberal atheist’ or whatever your puny brain comes up with as an insult? Are you seriously going to bitch and whine about parts about the bible, WHILE CLAIMING TO FOLLOW THE FUCKING BIBLE?!
//It means that we must have our own houses in order, that we must be willing to be judged ourselves. I have made mistakes, yes, and I repent for them daily. I am wholly ready to be judged by my Maker. And apparently, I am being judged quite often on this news service here by YOU PEOPLE! So don’t try and pull the hypocrisy garbage on me.//
You see, here’s the thing; either we don’t follow the scripture (which means that the bible and it’s teachings do not apply to us directly), or we understand that you’re an evil, Satanic devil in the guise of a Christian and we’re calling you out. You’re going to Hell Stevie, you’ve gone against the word of the Lord several times and even called a Holy man out when his words were fair and equal compared to Leviticus who would murder a baby if it wore two different kinds of clothing material.
//Furthermore, if judging is so terrible, does that mean we shouldn’t condemn the pedophile and the murderer? The thief and the adulterer? Are you going to give all those people a free pass?//
Sin does not equal crime you fucking retard. Your ancestors fucked 8 and 9 year olds and had them give birth by 10. 13 was considered to be too old to have kids back then, and murder is fully encouraged by the bible, the parts you follow at least (and the very man who you wish you could meet and shake hands with).
//Maybe we should just open up the prisons and let all the sex criminals and everyone else free! That’s what you people really want, isn’t it?//
No, we don’t want the Church to rule the State because that would enforce a tyranny, a line of thinking that has been proven before several times in the past, and you’ve fully admitted to wanting to make one.
//What about Chief Justice John Roberts. He’s an observant Catholic. Should he be told not to “judge” in his position on the Supreme Court? Is that what you think the Bible really means? You’re crazy and deluded.//
It’s against the law to kill a man for eating pork or cutting their hair, Leviticus said that both things are good enough reasons to bash their skulls in with rocks.
//As Christians, we must share our love and faith.//
You’re not a Christian, an actual Christian would accept people for who they are and actually hope and pray for them that they do good in the world, not condemn them for various acts of entertainment.
//If you think that means I’m “judging” just because I’m not afraid to call out egregious sin where I see it, than I am willing to do just that.//
So you’re willing to go against the bible to enforce the bible. Logic = non-existent in Stevie’s world.
//“Be not afraid!” No, I am not afraid.//
You’re deathly afraid, afraid of the truth that you’re wrong and you’ve condemned people and acted as if you were God, and when you die, expecting to go to Heaven, God will look upon you with rage and send you straight to the depths of hell, along with your terrorist friends and zealots like you.
//i have a responsibility as do all Christians to call out the sins and crimes and the criminals and the sex addicts and the drug dealers where I see them and you dangerously insane people are just driving me nuts trying to circle argue me otherwise because your just looking for an excuse to explain your habits and why you lure kids away from good families and this isn’t music for crying out loud, it’s AN ABOMINATION.//
You have no idea what you’re going up against, you have no idea who you’re talking to, you have no idea what you’re talking about, and you’re doing nothing but adding more fear and paranoia into a terrorist world. You want everyone under lock-down, no one is allowed out of their house and everyone is forced to be under constant monitoring and the moment someone ‘steps out of line’, you will murder them for going against your word.
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9:32 pm
I VERY CLEARLY STATED THAT PEOPLE MISUSE AND MISUNDERSTAND MATTHEW. WHY MUST YOU FAIL TO COMPREHEND MY MOST BASIC STATTEMENTS?
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9:50 pm
“WHY MUST YOU FAIL TO COMPREHEND MY MOST BASIC STATTEMENTS?”
Why must you fail to comprehend that…
-we’re not your friends
-we hate you
-we’ll never see eye to eye
-we’ll never change our belief systems
-we don’t want you to pray for us
-we don’t want you to care about us
-we don’t want you near our homes or our families
-we have nothing in common with you
-we’d rather have cancer of the ass than have you anywhere near us
-we love our homosexual, liberal, atheist, feminist, hippy, feline, black, and Muslim friends and take it personally when you demonize them
-you’re a fatass who has no business preaching to others about curbing physical desires
Eh?
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10:56 pm
That’s a pretty nasty mouthful for a young woman, Claire. I am continually saddened that you tend to dislike me when there was a time I thought we were friends. I promise you, however, that I will always hope that you and I can share a love of life and country some day.
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//I VERY CLEARLY STATED THAT PEOPLE MISUSE AND MISUNDERSTAND MATTHEW.//
When you judge someone, you claim they shall go to Hell. Matthew says that if you judge someone and say they’re going to Hell, then God’s gonna judge you and tell you that you’re going to Hell. Pretty basic concept really, you just seem to not understand it. Not surprising, since you twist and distort the Bible to fit your crazed mind rather than how it’s supposed to be taken.
//WHY MUST YOU FAIL TO COMPREHEND MY MOST BASIC STATTEMENTS?//
You fail at basic knowledge and at life. You’re also bat-shit insane, so who COULD comprehend your mad-ramblings?
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8:02 pm
I have a favorite line from a song that you might enjoy. “They will know we are Christians by our love.” Please rethink your strategy of sharing your faith. Where is the love?
Instead of bringing people into the fold, you repel them. Instead of showing them love, you show them fear and hate.
Who can possibly be enticed into listening to your words when you throw so much hateful speech around?
As an evangelist, you are a failure.
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11:12 pm
I think our little friend Stevie’s the living embodiment of the expression “Negative attention is better than none at all”. He totally reminds me of the 5 year old in a restaurant, running around yelling “Look at me, Mommy! Look at me!!!”.
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4:00 pm
Yes, those hippies HATE patriotism.
Wait…this can’t be right. Is this a video of Phish singing the Star Spangled Banner at a major league baseball park? Home of the national past time?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4gH46RSihA
Oh my gosh, here’s Phish singing the Star Spangled Banner at a basketball arena…just steps from the World Trade Center:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4WgbLRHh8M
Hold on. This must be fake. Three members of the Grateful Dead singing the National Anthem alongside our men in uniform! No way!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH8ObibNCoo
Whoa. They did it again more recently!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i8MOf_2_4E
Wow! They sound quite good! They don’t sound like they hate patriotism or their country at all!
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4:03 pm
What a joke, not only furthering the argument that christians are drones who don’t think for themselves, but also that the religion itself contains sexism, racism, and a general lack of logic. Judge not lest ye be judged, didn’t someone you know say that?
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4:48 pm
I like hippies! They read lots of books, whereas people who have named themselves after me, stopped reading after only one book. As a teacher I find this remarkably distressing.
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6:03 pm
PeaceLoveFreedom, please don’t demonize the Christians as Mr. Billings demonizes everyone else. 99% of Christiants are good people. It is the extremists like Billings that give Chritians and Republicans a bad name. Don’t act like there aren’t liberals out there doing the same thing but with opposing views. We can’t let people like this effect how we think about religion, politics and hunamity as a whole. Most people are good at heart and it is up to you to see that, not me, not Billings, nobody but you.
Mr. Billings, I truly come in peace. Judge others and God shall judge you in the same way. Spread peace, as Jesus did, and peace will come to you in Heaven. It’s not too late for you!!!
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8:26 pm
You’re right, I apologise for treating a group of people in a certain way because of the statements of a few. I like the book, I like the fact that it originally highlighted the plight of someone who took the time to make a better world.. But I don’t agree with any order being help over people and leading to discrimination. I don’t like the many modern interpretations that are made from the bible in order to persecute and belittle people who differ from the interpreters.
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8:47 pm
curious, I know stereotyping is a dangerous thing, thought I’d let Billings know how it feels to be stereotyped
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4:34 pm
“I love you, but Jesus loves you the best”
What?!? Words uttered by Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead? Impossible!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROPcZ8S_nwE
Tell A for the ark, that wonderful boat…
I remember right well, I remember right well
Walking in Jerusalem just like John
Here’s Jerry Garcia sing Cold Jordan. How could he know such a song?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMvFdsJ7GwA
The Grateful Dead sang so many songs about Biblical figures! Pretty amazing!
Check out these lyrics:
The Greatest Story Ever Told: http://www.dead.net/song/greatest-story-ever-told
Samson and Delilah: http://www.dead.net/song/samson-and-delilah
The Eleven (hm…12 Apostles minus Judas?): http://www.dead.net/song/eleven
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4:40 pm
Can you still have fun?
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4:55 pm
How come when I condemned you on this most modern of contraptions, you received only praise. Is this what you 21st centurians refer to as ‘rigging the system’? Confounding gadget, I’ll pop over to old Buddhas house and see what he thinks. He’s much better with technology than me.
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5:06 pm
Don’t take the Lord’s name in vain. It’s really not right.
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5:10 pm
We won’t take the lord’s name in vain if you won’t demonize homosexuals, atheists, cats, feminists, liberals, hippies, and everything else in this world. Deal?
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6:43 pm
You sin in the name of the Lord.
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8:20 pm
It’s a book get over it
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4:59 pm
OOh Buddha just lent me his IPod. Wonderful creation, who would have thought that scratching a few tablets of stone would have led to this. Anyway, it’s loaded with top hits from the 60s! Jumping juniper bush, I’m heading outside to appreciate the sun, sand and some sublime guitar.
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5:34 pm
wait, so this article is a joke right?
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6:15 pm
No Brandon, it’s because you’ve posted 230 questions here in the last few days that I don’t have the time to answer. You seem to think I’m a DJ at your local disco but sorry buddy, I don’t do requests! I am busy man and not everything you comment is relevant or even interesting.
First,I’m not your “buddy”.
Second,you aren’t that busy if you can take the time to read and then thumbs the post down.
Third,I deal with people that tell me different things every day and I hear every excuse in the book and then some,and from my experiences with ppl,you avoid relevant questions.
Same goes for you and your comments.
Quit with the metaphors and such,you sound more ignorant than intelligent.
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7:04 pm
CALM DOWN, NUTJOB!
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7:48 pm
“CALM DOWN, NUTJOB!”
Does god say to call people names?
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7:53 pm
You’re calling a law enforcer a nut job?
Hey Brandon, is that legal grounds for arrest or is it too much of a minor case that it wouldn’t be pushed towards? Because you could easily arrest this freak for terrorism and use his own blogs against him.
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12:35 am
To The Comedian,
If he was breaking the law in my jurisdiction,yes. While there is no crime yet against typing offensive words,the law does state that an individual can be arrested and prosecuted if threat of life or limb is made.The FBI handles matters such as this and the ICCC or Internet Crime Complaint Center as well.
I just hope I never see you in my state billings..
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6:52 pm
Whoever wrotee this seems to know a little bit more about sexual behavior than the average person. Sounds like this person is threatened by people who don’t partake in activities, as his/her own.
The picture of the dreadlocked girls are actually really cute, probably the best thing offered in the article. I almost masturbated while doing drugs after seeing these girls…as being a hippy really makes me want to do all these things..lol
Being sexual with a partner is the great freedom of being a human.
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7:51 pm
Nice try billings,that wont work…
“Whoever wrotee this seems to know a little bit more about sexual behavior than the average person. Sounds like this person is threatened by people who don’t partake in activities, as his/her own.
The picture of the dreadlocked girls are actually really cute, probably the best thing offered in the article. I almost masturbated while doing drugs after seeing these girls…as being a hippy really makes me want to do all these things..lol
Being sexual with a partner is the great freedom of being a human.”
Trying to get even are you now?
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7:18 pm
Brandon, I didn’t write that. There’s obviously more than one person named Brandon on here. Don’t be so paranoid.
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7:30 pm
Says the man-child who creates conspiracy theories.
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6:52 pm
Whoever wrote this seems to know a little bit more about sexual behavior than the average person. Sounds like this person is threatened by people who don’t partake in activities, as his/her own.
The picture of the dreadlocked girls are actually really cute, probably the best thing offered in the article. I almost masturbated while doing drugs after seeing these girls…as being a hippy really makes me want to do all these things..lol
Being sexual with a partner is the great freedom of being a human.
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7:02 pm
I don’t know you personally, sir, but based upon your writings, you have chosen to spend a significant portion of your life finding things to hate and vilify. That is incredibly sad. This comment will no doubt incense you, but I’m not opposing you to make myself feel “right” and you “wrong”. I would just like to extend my sincere opinion that life is far too beautiful to spend finding reasons to hate. God bless you.
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7:09 pm
I don’t think i’ve ever read a more evil, misguided, delusional, and purely fucking psychotic article in my life. Mr. Billings, you are a fucking psycho.
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7:51 pm
I posted numerous links to videos of the Grateful Dead and Phish singing both the National Anthem and songs with Biblical message in them. They never cleared moderation.
Sadly, there are uneducated, ignorant folks out there who make broad, incorrect conclusions about a massive population. Describing all hippies in the manner above is as bad as saying all Christians are close minded or all politicians are corrupt. Some are, many aren’t.
Some hippies, deadheads, and phish phans may participate in immoral behavior, but it is impossible to categorize everyone who likes a certain kind of music as immoral.
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7:19 pm
You can only post one link at a time, otherwise the website thinks it’s spam. Sorry, but that’s the way it works. “Moderation” means it will never appear. I’m not a techie, there’s nothing I can do about it.
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7:29 pm
So you admit to not knowing a thing about technology, eh?
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3:35 am
>:-( No!! Why don’t you listen to what he says! You might learn something!
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8:11 pm
I have been owned in a huge way. *bows*
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8:20 pm
Clearly, the author of this text is a moron.
If you really knew anything about someone like me who could use herb regularly and who enjoys a universal bond with Jesus Christ, and who is clearly enjoying the favor of God, then you might be able to write something coherent about Phish.
The fact that the members and fans have all experienced the ride of psychoactive substances doesn’t alienate them from God. In fact, instead of the consumerist society the author advocates, our experienced have driven us closer to the LORD.
The authors of this website should be embarrassed to be associated with such ridiculously poor researched prose as this.
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8:27 pm
WOW!
I knew ignorance was out there but this just takes the cake…
I truly feel sorry for you author for you will never know true happiness and compassion.
Not to mention the article was extremely poorly written and mostly off on facts.
However, thank you for a good laugh! I felt like I was reading a parody of some sort
::::shakes head and sighs at uneducated conservative christians::::
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8:30 pm
AND…
Christian priests molest little boys
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8:53 pm
Mr. Billings does not understand that what “these people” represent is freedom. He is obviously overcome with fear and perhaps jealousy.
The validity of this artical can be proven by his observation that The Grateful Dead and “The Phish”(love it)used “the lowest quality acoustical instruments pumped through a sound system purchased at a toy store”
What a stupid ignorant fuck stick. Good for a laugh.
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9:09 pm
i cannot believe you claim yourself to be a journalist. Fabricating information about a group of people is exactly what is wrong in today’s media. Your gross misunderstanding of this group of people is startling and disheartening. Hippies are far less sexually deviant than those perverted Catholic priests. In fact, they are far from sexually deviant. Hippies promote equality, peace and general camaraderie to all that they meet. They are the most welcome, loving and happy people. They care for the earth, their friends and family and just about every stranger they meet. Many of them do come from affluent backgrounds, and even more of them are highly educated. In fact, it is with their education that they are able to come to see the corruption in America that much more clearly. Your blatant ignorance and complete disregard for human kind is far less Christian than any peace loving hippie. Do me a favor, become a real journalist and base your work on objective fact and not subjective bull crap. It sounds to me like someone is still harboring pain for not being invited to the fun parties in high school. I suspect your next article will be titled, “Why are there still Jocks who beat up crazy Christian journalists?”
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3:40 am
If hippies are so compassionate, why do they make me smell them all the time?
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9:09 pm
Jeezez Kryst that is the most biased, one dimensional, ignorant rant I’ve read in quite some time. I’d like to shoot the S.O.B. that sent me this link to read “as a laugh” because this is pure garbage and I’d like to have the last 10 minutes of my life back.
This guy needs to remove his head from his posterior and get out and travel, see the world and interact with people. He’s obviously been hiding in the closet too long.
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9:10 pm
Mr. Billings, your ignorance is absoulutely unequaled. I do not think I have ever read a more ignorant hateful piece of literature in my whole life. You are the antethesis of what is wrong with America and the Christian faith as a whole. You obviously put zero effort into researching this article,nit seems more like you just let you ignorance and hatered spew forth onto the page. As a fellow christian, I am ashamed to say that you and I practice the same faith. As a self-proclaimed “hippie”, I am angered and insulted by your false claims and fear-mongering. I will pray for your soul sir, for I know that a person like you and a person like myself cannot share the same space in the afterlife.
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9:12 pm
Hey, that’s Marcie holding the flowers. She works at a restaurant in my town. Oh wait… she WORKS at a restaurant in my town. Hippies don’t work, so I guess that must not be her in the photograph. Or something like that.
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9:34 pm
“They constantly cruise the internet looking for a thrilling marijuana score and maybe a fluid-drenched intergeneration erotic encounter in some disused graveyard.”
*Whoa* What kind of effed up mind comes up with a sentence like that anyway? Your own psychotic fantasy perhaps? SCARY!! I think you should say a hail mary or something just for writing that.
Overall the article is quite entertaining, however, with the grossly exaggerated and misinformed ranting, and I love the photos.
Have you ever written anything with love? I’m sure it would lack the humor of trashing on people with different perspectives and styles, but maybe it would feel better . . . *Peace*
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9:38 pm
The reason we are still around is the fact that most “Hippies” are educated and are more aligned with the forces of nature – not the burdens of mans misguided morals & gods. We are more in sync with Native Americans in that we feel to exist and remain on the planet, we must live in harmony or we will all perish. I spent a year studying Genesis, another year studying Romans and then 1 more studying the Acts of the Apostles (Matthew, Mark, Luke & John) along with many other religious practices & beliefs.
Lets face it, the bible was written by man to control man and has been tweaked & modified over the years to serve the interests of those who had the power during in their time to change as it they saw fit. The Catholics want you to believe that the only way to salvation is through THEIR church – and dont forget to put your 10% in the plate.
So there’s an invisible god who lives in the sky and watches everything you do every minute of every day and he’s taking notes. He has a list of 10 things you must not do or he has a special place called Hell that is made of fire & misery & suffering that he will send you to suffer for ever & ever…. But He loves you. He loves you and he needs money. I guess God is no financial genius as he always needs a little more $$.
We have wiped out plant & animal species with amazing efficiency, polluted the planet beyond our ability to recover the damage we have done to it and have no idea how to live in peace with each other. We have proven that we as a species are too stupid to coexist with other life forms and even with each other. How many lives have been lost because that country over there doesn’t believe like our country, so they must die. The Romans persecuted the Christians and now want to have complete control of the bible and rule the Christian faith. So many times growing up I would hear someone tell me how to believe & live, only to watch that same person live the exact opposite life he was preaching. Hypocrisy is the backbone of the Christian faith. Do as I say, not as I do.
I for one believe the planet is a living entity and if we become too much of a threat, it will shake us off like a flea and God wont be able to do a damn thing about it. We have created holes in the ozone, have large balls of plastic waste floating in the oceans (called Dead Zones as no plant or animal life is found anywhere near them), our fish are spoiled, the air un-breathable and land poisoned by Monsanto all for the sake of making $$. You can kill & rape & destroy others if it will improve your bottom line – gotta keep those stock holders happy
Dare to keep Priests off Kids…
Have a Nice Day,
Carlton
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7:21 pm
If this were a better country, your treasonous and dangerous ideas would land you in jail.
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3:44 am
…or worse!
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9:45 pm
People with that must hate inside them end up in one place. See you in hell Stephenson Billings.
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9:48 pm
I could address a lot of what was typed in this article, but it’s full of such gross exaggerations, I wouldn’t know where to start. I can’t help but think it was intended to be a joke to bait people on the internet. If so, thumbs up to you sir!
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9:55 pm
Shut up stupids
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9:55 pm
“It frightens me you’re in law enforcement, the very people who are repressing and discriminating against Christians in this nation.”
Ah yes, the plight of the Christian white man in America. Grow a pair, dude.
You have no right to bitch about discrimination, considering how you’re doing the same exact thing to gays.
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10:15 pm
You have no clue how difficult it is to be a Christian in Obama’s Liberal America today. We have our freedom of speech surpressed at every turn, being forced to keep ourselves quiet about our faith at work and in the public sphere. We are discriminated against in careers and the media has called open season on Christians, promoting the worst kinds of hostility towards us. Clearly we now have law enforcement people against as (as your comrade above is clearly showing.) Yet despite this incredible persecution, we persevere and speak out. We will not let your hate keep us down.
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10:21 pm
“Yet despite this incredible persecution, we persevere and speak out. We will not let your hate keep us down.”
Yeah, that’s right, I forgot about your little tantrums.
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11:30 pm
I didn’t realize that being a Christian sucked so much. I have so much more pity for you now Stephenson Billings … Now that I understand how persecuted the Christians are.
If you need me for anything, I’ll be over in the village square doing “Oxycotton” and public masterbating, while teaching the wisdom of Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin to the local teens. Come on by … we’re burning bibles at midnight on the altar.
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11:34 pm
“When you point a finger ’cause your plan fell through, you got three more fingers… pointing back at YOU!”- Mark Knopfler
What’s keeping you down, Billings, is your own mental, emotional and social dysfunction.
Well, that and your resume’s probably thinner than the parchment it was charcoaled on…
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4:21 pm
//You have no clue how difficult it is to be a Christian in Obama’s Liberal America today.//
Not being able to go up to every non-white and telling them they’re going to Hell because they’re sub-human must be incredibly difficult for you, huh? Oh wait, THAT’S SOMETHING THAT YOU HAVEN’T BEEN ABLE TO DO FOR AT LEAST 50 YEARS!
//We have our freedom of speech surpressed at every turn, being forced to keep ourselves quiet about our faith at work and in the public sphere.//
Give me actual examples of this happening. Not instances you’ve made up in your deranged head, actual news stories of business’ and public places banning Christianity.
//We are discriminated against in careers and the media has called open season on Christians, promoting the worst kinds of hostility towards us.//
Again, show me where this is happening. Considering how Christians make up a large portion of the country, I highly doubt every non-Christian is ‘declaring open season’ on them.
//Clearly we now have law enforcement people against as (as your comrade above is clearly showing.)//
You’re a fear-mongering terrorist, and Brandon has admitted several times that he’s a Christian, and that other Christians he’s shown this to have the same opinions as the rest of us here who are calling your bullshit out. You’re just trying to make people feel bad that you’re terrorist ways aren’t being accepted because the government is full of meanies.
I know grade-school children who are more mature than you.
//Yet despite this incredible persecution, we persevere and speak out. We will not let your hate keep us down.//
You see, you’re not a Christian, and no one really hates Christians, it’s ANY person who feels that their values and ways should be the only accepted view, regardless of what others feel. You’re trying to install a tyranny, where only one will has any control, and that will is able to manipulate religion as they see fit to make their ideas into reality. You’re not a Christian whatsoever, a real Christian would pray for the well-being of people and not say that they’re going to Hell, they’ll pray that God forgives them of their sins even if they aren’t Christian. People like you have this insane logic that if a Christian dies, he goes to Heaven, even if he was a child-raping bastard that murdered dozens of people and did god knows what else, all because in his final moments he asked for forgiveness while a good upstanding man who donates money to various groups of people and does nothing that harms others or himself is going to Hell because he wasn’t a Christian, even if he never sinned.
You think being a Christian is like wearing a badge. Simply calling yourself one seems to make you immune to any judgments that God will make because you think you’re going to Heaven. Buddy, there’s a good number of murderers and rapists and criminals who were Christian and they’re all in Hell or going to it. Being a Christian does not mean you can do whatever the hell you feel like without any negative repercussions whatsoever, and being old doesn’t mean you get any respect. You have to EARN your respect and place in Heaven, and you’ve shown that you don’t deserve either.
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7:25 pm
David Limbaugh wrote an entire book on the subject of discrimination against Christians in America today. It’s called “Persecution.” Great read and full of facts, I highly recommend it!
David Limbaugh: discrimination against Christians surging
http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?id=17421
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6:38 am
If you keep pushing this notion that the United States (of America, which has other countries in it)is so great and being ruined shouldn’t you also agree with the Constitutional notion of SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE??
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10:02 pm
Just because a psychotic (and I don’t mean to insult psychotics…) has access to the internet doesn’t mean we need to respond.
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11:00 pm
“That’s a pretty nasty mouthful for a young woman, Claire.”
Explain.
“I am continually saddened that you tend to dislike me”
I “tend to dislike” you? No, no, no, I HATE YOUR GUTS.
“when there was a time I thought we were friends.”
I don’t know WHY you ever thought that, considering how I made it VERY clear, from the moment I met you, that I held nothing but animosity towards you.
“I promise you, however, that I will always hope that you and I can share a love of life and country some day.”
Did you not read what I wrote? We will NEVER see eye to eye. That is final.
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11:44 pm
I read more about perverted priests than ‘hippies’. i am in no way defending christians or deinviduaized hippies.
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11:46 pm
“That’s a pretty nasty mouthful for a young woman, Claire. I am continually saddened that you tend to dislike me when there was a time I thought we were friends. I promise you, however, that I will always hope that you and I can share a love of life and country some day.”
Holy Jebus, Catman! Doesn’t that totally sound like the line a comic book supervillian would deliver while looming ominously over the heroine right before he attaches the mind-control electrodes?
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11:53 pm
Mr. Billings, you’ve made my evening. It’s truly refreshing to read such a funny article! Usually Christian commentary is so dry and boring, but you put out something so intentionally naive, so contrarian, that I can only conclude that you must be emulating “Reefer Madness”! Either you’ve got some Colbert-like wit to your asinine spoofing of a subculture or you’re someone with poor powers of observation and cursed with lower than average intelligence. I suppose there is also the third option; that you’re brainwashed in a bastardized sect of a religion in which you truly don’t appreciate the teachings your savior.
Because I respect others, I’ll give you the benefit and chalk this up as satiric brilliance, but it does bring up some topics of hypocrisy often displayed by the beliefs of today’s Evangelical Christians: Namely the blind eye turned to greed, violence and other sins, while focusing exclusively on people different than themselves. This selective interpretation is often used to suit their needs and reaffirming their limited worldview. Jesus was the Prince of Peace, but many more Christians seem to believe that today’s Jesus would look and act more like John Wayne or Rambo. Most of us realized that Jesus probably wouldn’t stump for tax cuts or hurl insults at homosexuals. Nor would he selectively give out government contracts to military contractors or advocate the unprovoked attack on another land. This country is about liberty and justice for all, yet many people seem to hate us for our freedoms. Which brings me to another point about these narrow-minded individuals. Their disdain for science and for others, and hatred at a departure from the “good old days” (you know, back when women and black people couldn’t vote) bears monitoring. If for no other reason than the fact that extremists, Christian or any other religion, are most likely to build anger and let it manifest into violence. Evangelical Christians may be dangerous, much more akin to more devout sects of Islam in their xenophobic, ignorant rage. They threaten to keep us in yesteryear, willing to let us fall behind many other nations as they refuse to acknowledge the importance of progressive education, innovation, and human rights’ as a key component to the ability of an empire to survive. Luckily, the leaders of tomorrow are out there, caring for others, pioneering fields, and solving problems. And, quite a few of them went to good schools (not just Liberty and Bob Jones U.) and some of them like “The Phish”! As it was written in the Book of Matthew: “Blessed are the Peacemakers”. Thanks again for reminding us to put things in perspective. It’s Saturday night. Go throw on that 5-8-77 Dead show at Barton Hall. My grandmother loves it; I’m sure deep down you do, too. Peace.
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1:51 am
Awesome, bartonizer. So very eloquent.
My simplistic take on why fundamentalist Christian conservatives spew forth so loudly and with such vitriol: they hate us for our freedom. Freedom from conventional social restrictions, freedom from guilt and shame, freedom of unfettered self expression and self definition… the list could go on and on. I think Billings actually hates the entire concept of living in a free society because it doesn’t conform to his peculiar, antiquated social ideal. If he could just swap his Bible out for a Quran he would probably feel right at home in some cave in Afghanistan, or maybe Northern Pakistan. Probably more than he does in Tennessee, I hear there’s some hippies living there now… best of luck to both of them!
fundamentalist-fun=damentalist-mental=a list.
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12:30 am
Mr. Billings,
I am going to give you some very important information for your quest…
I will just say that I do believe in Jesus, not because of the church or the bible, but because I met him, face to face, eye to eye, and he smiled at me with his perfect radiant beautiful love. I believe that you could have this experience too, if you are open enough to receive his blessing.
This could change your life and lead you to a better understanding of Jesus and spirituality, helping you in your work and helping to change the world.
It is called the Good Friday Experiment. Don’t be afraid, this study was done in a university, and has been done thousands of times by spiritual persons such as yourself.
Here is a link to get you started:
http://www.maps.org/books/pahnke/2006_griffiths_22780_1.pdf
Be well, blessings…
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12:32 am
You lost me after “heir hatred of Christian-American patriotism continues to be one of their most recognizable traits.” Don’t EVER associate Christianity with patriotism. This continent was sought out by Europeans in the seventeenth century seeking religious freedom. The whole basis this country was found on is freedom. Freedom of RELIGION. Your opinions go against the country that you call home’s very basis. America is a land of the free. We can act however we want (as long as its within the law), if we wanna grow out out hair and go to rock concerts.
In America, you are also aloud to voice your opinion however you want to, so more power to you, but PLEASE do not ever associate America with Christianity. Move to Europe if your gonna act like that, dick.
And you are a living contradiction dude. Love your neighbor as thyself. Do unto others as you would do to yourself. Christianity is based around love for your neighbor and god. Jesus would not approve of you constantly making articles condoning people you self-righteous prick. You are the reason people hate America, dick
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12:48 am
“We believe faith and freedom must be our guiding stars, for they show us truth, they make us brave, give us hope, and leave us wiser than we were.” –President Ronald Reagan
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12:50 am
“Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.” –Founding Father Thomas Jefferson
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8:18 am
Impressive Billings, you can use google to find quotes. Unfortunately, its only two to support your idea while I can easily use the entire bill of rights and declaration of independence to support mine.
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9:22 am
The quotes are from my Facebook page and they mean a lot to me.
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7:15 pm
//The quotes are from my Facebook page and they mean a lot to me.//
Those quotes mean jack shit to you, you hate freedoms for everyone except yourself and those who think like you. You think anyone who’s ‘liberal’ can’t be a Christian and any Christian who isn’t trying to push forward an agenda of genocide is a terrible role model.
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6:58 am
well good to see you are as good a student of history as you were of “journalism”, as you like to call it– Thomas Jefferson was the biggest proponent for putting SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE into the CONSTITUTION. It really gard to believe you love this country when it sounds like you hate just about everything this country stands for… religious freedom (FOR ANY RELIGION), cultural diversity, liberty..freedom in general (which you do not seem to understand. Your view of how the United States was never existed. America never looked like Leave it to Beaver… it was all in your head if you think it did. And your view of how the country should look will never exist. And soon enough, people spewing this kind of filth will die off, and if there is a hell, you’ll be there buddy… you’ll be there
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11:17 am
This community that you have takin the time to try and bring down with your unresearched and very hypicritical words is the one that I love and strive in.
I am a college student, I have my own business, I smoke weed, I HATE HATE HATE opiates and people like the one who took time to right this.
I don’t hate Christians, I hate conformed religion by force.
I don’t want all drugs leagal, just marijuana.
PROP 21!
Stick your face in you precious book that has been re-witten several times and comes from the church that forced peasants to pay their money to the church whilst the priests were living lavishly and laughing and having a good ole time with THEIR orgies.
THAT is the base of our hatred.
I wish I could be more civil, but go fuck yourself.
AND TAKE JERRY AND THE BOYS OFF THIS PAGE!
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1:00 am
I had to take a break from drug-induced masturbating at a Phish show to say this is the funniest thing I have read in a long time! Thank you so much for providing many hearty laughs. I think I need a bong hit to settle myself down.
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1:12 am
You got me, its all satire.
Mr. Billings, you are a genius.
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3:14 am
JESUS WAS A HIPPIE using his whiteness to his advantage, jk, but he was a hippy
Christ means the annointed one and the ointment he would have rubbed on his body contained Hashish
yea there are a lot of self centered assholes, but there everywhere at least these peoplemake decisions unafected by the catholic church whch has been proved wrong through history and are not completel guided by internet and tv
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6:04 am
You ever notice that people that don’t believe in evolution look really…unevolved?
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6:38 am
Mr. Billings lists as a favorite quote on Facebook: “How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.” –Saint Thomas Aquinas.
This seems somewhat ironic, give this article.
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8:13 am
Wow, you’re really gettin’ slammed for this one Stevie. Hope this makes you think… ‘Hmm… Maybe I made a mistake somewhere…’ Either way, you really have a twisted view of hippies. I could go through this entire thing and pick out what was wrong with it but that would take WAY to long. Anyway, if you want a definition of hippie, just take it from Jerry Garcia. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBlXEGLXlV0&feature=player_embedded
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8:26 am
my mama always told me, when you point your finger at someone, you force yourself to point three back at yourself.
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8:30 am
This article is simply insane. I am so sick of so called christians who are intolerant of people who don’t look like them or believe exactly what they believe in. At what point did Jesus set this example? It makes me sad.
While I am not a deeply religious person I appreciate the moral and ethical suggestions that are laid out in the bible and it sickens me when people use it as some sort of justification for their hate and intoloerance. Jesus would be ashamed.
I have been to a Phish show and it is nothing like the author describes. For the most part the Phish audience is friendly, polite and TOLERATE of differences. There are only a handful of people that look like the pictures you have atached to your article. And you know what they typically have a deep appreciation for the creations of our lord. Music is a gift for god and these people find great happiness in this gift.
Try speading tolerance and love, not hate and ignorance. You are creating misguided christians, who do not truly understand the teachings of christ because you wrap it up in this package of hate. You should be ashamed of yourself.
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9:07 am
i mean, I hate hippies just as much as the next guy, but this artilce is straight ridiculous nonsense.
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9:16 am
“They wear loose, used clothing and grow their hair unnecessarily long.”
This statement is correct. Oh, wait a second, I see you are talking about hippies. I thought you were talking about the Lord and his apostles!
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9:43 am
‘deadly street drugs like marijuana’
wow, get a grip you proto-christian fascist
if you truly believe we pose such a threat, your ‘american’ values must not be so strong after all
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10:35 am
I love how consumerism is what makes America great, and that the hippie revolution was a fashion trend. You can’t see with blind eyes, everything is what you make of it. You can live in fear or live in love, the choice has always been yours.
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10:50 am
Somebody has been sipping on some haterade.
First of all I will start with saying congratulations. This was by far the most hilarious thing I have ever read. Kudos to writing an unintentional satirical masterpiece. In fact Mr. Billings I think it is propaganda at it’s finest! You would have been an icon were you a Nazi propagandist, Hitler’s right hand man, if you will! With all due respect Mr. Billings, please do seek help to cure YOUR disease–hate. I hear an open mind is the first step
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10:53 am
CRAZY!!! Thanks for the laughs you fucking nut. Ok back to my bong hits (and six figure corporate job) so I can dream about the next phish show.
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7:29 pm
I pity your poor mother, having to deal with a son like you.
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7:31 pm
This coming from the man who drove his mother to the bottle.
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7:40 pm
I’m pretty sure he’s driven his mother to hanging herself or slitting her wrists.
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8:13 pm
Listen, I know the conversation gets a bit heated here sometimes but your comment goes too far. I would be happy if you apologized. Don’t you think that’s fair?
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4:26 pm
It was YOU that brought mother into the disscussion.
So maybe YOU should be the one to apologize?
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8:26 pm
I had sex with his mother with him watching.
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11:06 am
“As an adult and a Christian, I have a responsibility to protect children and to spread completely non-factual, opinion based, PROPAGANDA!”
I come from a christian background and this may be the most embarrassing example of why the faith is dying I have ever read. You sir… should be ashamed to put your name on something like this and pawn it off to the only people more sheltered and ignorant than yourself; those who believe what you have to say.
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11:11 am
If we are just going to over emphasise stereotypes…
“Hippies” care about the planet and do not feel they have DOMINION over the planet. (Gen 1:26) They seek a green agenda free from pumping oil, cutting down trees, and polluting rivers. We care about gods holy creation very much.
“Hippies” like all kinds of music. Bluegrass, funk, rock, electronic, classical, jazz, afro beat, ect ect ect. All that is required to enjoy this music is an appreciation for someone who can master an instrument well enough to entertain you without having to sing lyrics.
Furthur more, many of these “hippie” bands have not only had some of the finest instruents and sound systems, they have DESIGNED AND ENGINEERED the best instruments and sound systems that the touring band world has ever seen. They also use a Kazoo bought in a dollar store from time to time.
“Hippies” as a whole have a drug problem, but not all of them. Me and my closest friends have given up pyschedelic drugs in favor of getting “high” on the love and energy we feel when we are at a live show.
I have not taken drugs for a long time now.
My hair is short, I wear anything from tie die and raggy jeans for a show to khahkis and a a tie for work.
I read the Bible, and the Bagavad Gita. The message is the same. Be an instrment of god and live an honorable life.
I encourage people to find someone they love and stay with them rather than run around being dirty and making their life unneccessarily dramatic and filled with disease.
“Hippies” have their problems. So do Christians, muslums, jews, buhhdists, republicans, democrats, white collar and blue collar workers, bankers, lawyers, doctors, catholic priests…I’ll stop there.
The fact is, the whole world is wounded by our prevailing world attitude that we have dominion over the earth, and somehow over each other.
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11:19 am
I have one thing to say to the lady who wrote this article. People who think like you are the people drinking the blood of the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi’s that were wrongfully murdered in the Iraq war.
Wake up and smell the coffee, the world hates Americans like you!
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11:20 am
and yes, your a woman dude
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11:41 am
Yes, the Grateful Dead does have a song about Cocaine.
Judging from his picture, the author would prefer a song about Rogaine.
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Not very nice.
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7:39 pm
And you deserve kindness why?
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7:19 pm
Awwww, Steewee gots hurty feelers… who gots a band-aid for lil’ Steewee?
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11:48 am
How could I forget.
Benefit rock concert raises $325K for Fourmile Canyon fire victims – Denver Business Journal
http://denver.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2010/10/04/daily80.html
“It featured performances by some of Colorado’s best-known rock bands — Big Head Todd and The Monsters, String Cheese Incident, Yonder Mountain String Band and Leftover Salmon — as well as members of PHISH [gasp], which opened its latest tour Sunday at 1stBank Center.
The venue holds 6,500, and the $60 tickets to the fundraiser sold out in two minutes when they went on sale Sept. 21.”
I was there. Not only did the ticket sales reach $325k, the total was way beyond that number, for a majority of the “hippies” there put money into donation buckets AND local rich folks MATCHED ticket proceeds, bringing the total to $650k.
The highlight of the night…
Trey and Mike of PHISH [gasp] demanding that we all stop and turn our attention to section 107 where all of the fire fighters were sitting, and direct the biggest cheer of the evening to the brave men who fought the fires!
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12:05 pm
OK mr. billings…for your next article, please tell us why black people still exist in america with their baggy pants and improper english and all…I DARE YOU to slam them for a while, you BIGOT!
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12:26 pm
Can you even read your Bible with all that spunk and BigMac sauce all over it Billings??
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12:29 pm
Stephensson – realize that you are nothing more than the village-idiot that have a tin can on your head and speaks with your penis.
Seriously – do you eat your own shit because it taste good or because you think it’s a steak???
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1:30 pm
Jesus was a hippie. Would he approve of your rendering of Him?
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1:39 pm
I got really disappointed when I hit that “public nudism” link.
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1:56 pm
But they look so happy…They also seem to look like Jesus and live like Jesus…They have left their material possessions behind and strive to love their neighbor. They seem much more Christian to me. God bless their free spirits!
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Wow, I thought this article was a joke at first. Where do I start… growing up as a catholic I learned from my dad what religion does. Let’s see, he was a state police officer who abused alcohol and cheated on my mom for 18 years!! He used religion as an excuse for his behavior since he could confess and be forgiven, and since in the catholic religion there is no divorce my mom showed us what it was like to be weak and not leave him and take his abuse. AS A HIPPIE myself, maybe you (the author of this ridiculous article) should know at 17 I spent 4 years serving the US Navy during the first Gulf War, put myself through college and graduated from LSU Nursing School, I have been a trauma nurse for 10 years (and wow they even hired me with my dreadlocks). I pay taxes and I volunteer on a regular basis. I hate no religion or person and if you knew any better or spent one weekend at a music festival I think you would feel differently. Your hatred is palpable in this article (real Christian of you) oh and thanks to Reagan my family lost there home when I was young.
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LOL, OMFG, I didnt know so much ignorance could fit into 1 web page. LOL hahaha, this is the funniest thing i have read in a long time. I see the guys points, but i have to pretend like i have had a tree trunk stuck up my ass since birth to do it. LOL
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2:25 pm
I am starting to think this is a CIA conspiracy to collect hippie email addresses because this article is so absurd that it is impossible to ignore.
Billings, I feel bad for you. You are obviously in hell right now, right here on this planet Earth. Your ludicrous and totally judgmental drivel is further adding misery to your own life while it tends to unite your subjects. Do you see how many different people disagree with you in so many different ways? Do you believe you are the only sane person on this planet? I fear for you and those close to you that you will remain in misery because you cannot see that we are all part of God and this IS heaven. Even with the tremendous amount of energy you put into this moral crusade, you are destined to stay miserable all your days. You will waste this life judging others and if you “meet” God he will ask you why you wasted so much energy trying to judge His creation.
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2:43 pm
If you think everyone around you is crazy, its probably you who is crazy.
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2:56 pm
Hilarious! you are blind, and you are such a Sad human being
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3:43 pm
Very well written article Stephenson. Although most of your writing is pure speculation and opinion, you managed to spin all your non-facts into an article that most people probably buy into. As usual though, anyone who has an ability to think for themself, can see right through your nonsense which is to be expected to christian right view points these days.
“These are people who have managed to deny every positive cultural change of the last 50 years”
-so your talking about how in the last 50 yrs our government has managed to tank the largest economy into a small fraction, a joke of what it used to be, get us into 2 wars we cannot win, all for oil, under the cover of invading to find the WMD’s they had.
“They avoided the raw masculinity and progressive politics of the Reagan years.”
– so you mean the years the religious right wing conservatives got an actor(puppet) elected into the oval office, who wiped out 90% of the tax’s on weathly americans, that kept everything on a more even keel. Consequently causing this generation to be in the WORST economy crisis in the history of the nation.
“They turned their backs on the groundswell of Judeo-Christian faith that has dominated this country since the 80s.”
– so your talking about the exposing of what really goes on with alter boys and priests behind closed doors? yes im talking about priests molesting childeren. You have the nerve to sit there and criticize people who masturbate, engage in same sex partnerships and sleep with multiple partners. When PRIESTS are having SEX with CHILDEREN. Btw in case you need a history lesson, same sex and multiple partner encounters have been happening since humans have been here, and it occurs in almost every other animal species in the wild.
“They banged their drum circles outside the White House when President Bush planned to take down the worst dictators of the Middle East.”
– No we banged our drum circles in protest to Bush using one of the worst tragedies in U.S. history as a smoke screen to invade a country that wasn’t responsible for the attack, and start a war for their rich oil reserves all under the cover of searching for WMD’s. A war which we can’t win.
“They have perverted medical science and our legal system to such an extent that deadly street drugs like marijuana are now decriminalized and available to our children at any bus stop.”
-so hippies are the only ones who smoke marijuana? Furthurmore medical science has proven that marijuana is harmless, and actually a more effective, safer and generally better medicine than its prescription counter parts that americas youth is stealing out of their parents cabinets and overdosing on…DAILY. Marijuana was made illegal through government propoganda (i.e. “Reefer Madness”) by the railroad in the 20′s due to hemps major threat to the foresty industry. Not b/c it’s dangerous. Lets face the facts, it’s still illegal today b/c the pharmaceutical companies, and many more who stand to lose billions if legalized are lobbying politicians to keep it that way. Lets not even discuss how much safer it is than alchohol. If the gov was concerned with our safety alcohol would be illegal. Also why is there no gripe with the crack and heroin dealing gang bangers who shoot innocent kids daily in a crossfire from a gun fight.
FYI- Im 24 about to graduate with a bachelors of geography, double minor in geology and environmental studies, I am in every way a self proclaimed hippy, and will be making 6 figures within a year. So not only have I directly deciphered your facts but I have clearly proved that someone you are describing can think for himself and is not a waste to society.
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3:50 pm
Great satire.
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4:28 pm
Uh-oh. Sounds like the church lady is back.
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4:36 pm
This guy is full of shit…. obviously smoked a little to much incense. Why don’t you go fuck yourself!!!
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4:51 pm
i gotta say steve i agree with you i am doing something to stop them by narcing to the police however sings me drugs
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4:57 pm
WARNING WARNING !!!! Motivational Children’s Party Entertainer?? Do not leave your children alone with Stephenson Billings he’s clearly sick I feel sorry for all the young children he has already abused! WARNING WARNING God does not support his hate speech …… WARNING WARNING
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5:29 pm
The jokes on you people……….
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5:38 pm
Just remember folks.. God spelled backwards is Dog, but Bob spelled backwards is still Bob!
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5:52 pm
You dont get to pick what is an American tradition OR what it stands for. Hippies are part of the foundation. And honestly, you should actually speak to some of these people before pretending to know anything about the culture.. YOU and your close minded assumptions are exactly what “they” are against. If people like you didnt exist there wouldnt be anything to protest.
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5:56 pm
Oh my gosh, this guy has NO idea what he is talking about. I have never read an article that smacks of more idiotic assumtions and propaganda. The simple fact that some editor let this man publish these rants and falsehoods is astounding. I would much rather be a hippie than the moron that ingests and believes this tripe. Are people stupid enough to believe you? Are you that blind to the real world? Complete and utter horsecrap. If you are tempted to believing any of this nonsense, go drown yourself. You will be happier.
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6:15 pm
“The Phish”? Are you kidding me?…
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6:39 pm
Mr. Billings, Sir.
Someone sent me the link to your article, and at first, I thought it was one of those satirical articles by The Onion. But then, on reading further, I came to the conclusion that you are actually serious.
I am aware that there have always been people like you in America, with some pretty “unusual” beliefs and opinions about God, Jesus, and politics.
But, Sir, I am curious. How did your version of Christianity get to be so closely identified with right-wing laissez-faire capitalism.
It seems to me that Jesus was pretty much a hippie himself. Apart from the long hair, the beard and walking around in some kind of kaftan, he didn’t seem to hold any regular employment. And he seemed pretty much wedded to ideas like taking care of the poor and the oppressed, and loving everyone, especially those who had been marginalized by society. He also lived a life of poverty.
If he were here today, not only would he have been considered a hippie, he would also have been accused of being a socialist and a dangerous radical.
This disconnect between the life of Jesus and what he taught, and the corporate, immoral and brutal character of Christianity as you seem to understand it is very alarming to me.
I am sure that you are sincere in your beliefs, Mr. Billings, but I fail to see how they they could, in any way be considered “Christian”, at least in the way that I have come to understand the teachings of Jesus.
Oh, and by the way, President Obama cannot be considered a Socialist, even if one were to to stretch that word to its limit. As a Graduate from LSE, where I studied economics and political science, I learned that a Socialist believes in the public ownership of the means of production and exchange.
Well, I grant you that we (the public) are the majority shareholders of General Motors, but it is my understanding that we will be selling our shares of that company back to private shareholders in the very near future.
Other than that, President Obama seems to me to be a pretty pragmatic, centrist, and I really cannot understand the vitriol shown him by so many in this country. You may not agree with all his policies, but, it seems to me that, as presidents go, and given the disastrous state of the nation that he inherited from GWB and the Neocons, he is doing probably as well as anyone could. And he certainly deserves if not support, at least the respect that he is entitled to.
Respectfully,
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6:52 pm
How funny. I don’t know what planet you live on, but your paranoid description of hippies is pure comedy. This article has gone viral among hippies because it’s so funny.
Thanks for the laugh. You’re nuts.
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6:58 pm
Hilarious!! Not sure if you intended for it to be or not, but thanks for the laugh. You have a very interesting take on the “hippie” community.
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7:13 pm
i am a hippie and i love the united states of america. i think you are way off!!! hippies stand for love and peace. and about your pictures…. i don’t think all those people are hippies. dreads do not =hippie!
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7:17 pm
“Second sentence, “your” should be “you’re” as in “you are.””
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7:18 pm
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2zzpwmt&s=7
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7:21 pm
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2h7qds7&s=7
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http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2eqct4z&s=7
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7:25 pm
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2gxpdvo&s=7
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7:38 pm
CLaire, I don’t know what you’re trying to say but you should use this new website for images, much better than that old one.
imgur.com
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7:41 pm
They’re a reply to this quote of yours:
“Second sentence, “your” should be “you’re” as in “you are.””
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7:42 pm
She’s tryin’ to say that you shouldn’t try to be a grammar nazi when you’ve fucked up yours several times.
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7:41 pm
i dont think that you are trying to make a statement in any way. you are mearly trying to draw attention to yourself by preaching these hateful, false and unchristian like values…..why dont you do some reasearch before you condemn a group of people as “dirty druggies”. thats not what we are about at all… its about having respect for your fellow humans, wich you clearly know nothing about. i can have steriotypes too, and you are living up to the typical religious right, hypocritical, conservative journalist who is more about the story than the information. this website is a joke and you are too
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7:21 pm
SEE? dogma makes you retarded and this bigoted article is proof! think for yourself or die for someone else’s cowardice. the bible does not condone this type of hate, spreading fear to build up a castle made of sand, so your priests and politicians can get fat. i hope jesus does come back and when he does the so-called christians better run. what about that bit about he who is free of sin can cast the first stone? hateful hypocrites!
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7:24 pm
A humorous article indeed. The irony is that Jesus (and I’ll bet his mother Mary and his disciples) would much prefer the values and ethics of compassionate, open hearted, altruisitic people like the hippies that still exist in this world today, then closed minded, hateful people who support an article such as this one. Either way, the article made me chuckle. Looks the writer has shot himself in the foot with his lack of cultural knowledge and hypocritical hatred towards others. Nice one Chris!
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7:30 pm
“Investigative Journalist, Motivational Children’s Party Entertainer and Antique Soda Bottle Collector all in one special, blessed package!” ?
maybe you should start running NOW!
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7:40 pm
WOW! This guy needs to be dosed with LSD to get a REALITY CHECK! It’s 2011, the old cutural ways of American society has killed this world! Global Warming, BP’s Oil Spill, suicidal increase due to the evil ways of society and the terrible Gang violence just to name a few. Think more about your carbon footprint than critizing the generation that is helping this country be a better place to live! Don’t judge a group of people based on a stupid stereotype… Be aware of Karma!
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8:10 pm
The year is 2010 and you are a hippie.
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8:43 pm
One word for ya…DINOSAUR.
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7:43 pm
Billings = bat crap crazy
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7:44 pm
jesus was a hippie but Cristians are judgmental fools
would you be “shocked” at a barefoot jesus passing out flowers preaching peace and love? why do christians favor war when hippies favor peace? because you christians have lost your way and the hippies you look down apon are living far holier lives then you could ever live when you sit in judgment and condemn peaceful people while praising those who thrust into the hell of war
i can see jesus who was full of love and light crying over how you look down on those who are choosing to live the most like him
cristian means christ like so hippies are more christian then any christian who hides behind that name claiming superiority over all others
its a shame you dont go spend time among the hippies and learn a few things about peace love and..tolerance
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8:39 pm
Billings, with all due respect, are you insane?
Law enforcement is on our side? HA! Where are you getting your information? And furthermore, have you ever spent any time around “hippies” to make a proper assessment?
You are picking on ppls spelling like a child….and hard work and discipline? I do work hard, but I work for myself. Speaking of working, if you are all about working for the lord, are you trying to turn us hippies to God, or prove OUR point about christians like you? Nothing you have said here has made me question my spiritual values, if anything, it has confirmed once again that I am right not to associate with ppl like you.
And one more thing, we refer to it as Karma, in the bible it is phrased as “you reap what you sow”….this country was founded on corruption. Killing innocent inhabitants and their way of life….so if you think america is gonna be a shining beacon, the bible says different. A country founded on corruption will be destroyed by corruption. It is simply the natural law.
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7:56 pm
Hmm. Well I am a deadhead-I have followed the Grateful Dead and PHISH for over 20 years. I also have a PhD and don’t use drugs (I do however masturbate-damn guess I am going to hell). I would like to point out that many Deadheads are practicing Christians-for a more extreme example there are the “deadheads for jesus” google it.Your over generalizations and gross misinterpretation of people you obviously know nothing about only hurts whatever point it is that you are desperately trying to make-what exactly IS your point? Because people do not LOOK like you they are unworthy in the eyes of the Lord? You speak of “hard work” yet do you have an idea what these people do for a living? Lawyers, doctors, teachers, jewel smiths, even they guy selling soda at the concert is working hard to get by. It is rather ironic that the photos you chose to display these “godless drug ridden heathens” actually look quite nice-sweet, smiling, good people. You have no idea what you are talking about and it shows I hope some one u-tubes your judgment day and sends it to Earth-I for one can’t wait to see you sent to hell for your bigotry and degradation of others:)
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8:13 pm
An obvious fool as are the vast majority of Christians, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists et al.
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8:26 pm
I mean, really? LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!! We must have a powerful influence for a hate article like this. well, I cant waste any more time here, i have to go find kids to invite to an all night drug orgy party, listen to some grateful dead, get high and run around the streets naked. ARE YOU REALLY THIS BIG OF AN IDIOT?
(The grateful dead comment dont sound too bad actually)
Billings, bless you, I hope you get a clue before you die.
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8:27 pm
This my friends, Christians and non-Christians alike, this is why the subculture at hand poses such a threat to the decency of America. Just take a little peek at the comments above! Such hate, hostility, the death threats, the broken English, the claims that narcotics are good for you and should be given to anyone and everyone… If you ever believed my article was speculation, you need only read the backlash above to see how very correct I was. Sadly, Christians today face the greatest amount of persecution and repression than any other time in recent history. Because of groups like hippies and radical liberals, we are losing are rights to express the morality that was the foundation of this nation– CHRISTIAN MORALITY. It comes from the Bible and from our leaders, not some bastardized teaching that these drug addicts hallacuniate during a drug binge. Even the police and law enforcement are on their side now, discriminating against Christian expressions of decency and love at every turn and giving these sex addicted narcotic pagans a a free pass. Well, I have news for all of you. True Americans aren’t taking your crap any more. We’re standing up, we’re organizing and the Tea Party is just the beginning of the movement to restore honor in this country. You filthy people have destroyed all the sacred goodness of the America I have known and loved. Why do you hate us so much? Are you really that afraid of hard work and discipline, modern morality and faith? Do you realize how you’re hurting our children and their children after that? You are destroying our future and giving the terrorists more ammunition. I think back on the heroic work of Ronald Reagan and how sad it is you have all destroyed the progress he made making the United States that shining beacon on the hill for all the world to see. The struggling third world used to look up to us as a paragon of Democracy and freedom. That was what used to be. How very sad.
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8:34 pm
Please watch this video and hear my words!
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8:38 pm
I fear that you will not stop until you get war.
It didn’t work for Hitler, so take a leaf out of the great book of history and live you life as you wish – leaving others to live their lives.
To thine own self be true.
You will always get yourself some responses that validate your beliefs. Your method arousinf hatred in people by belittling them and discriminating against them will continue to gain you the validation you are looking for. But there must be more to your life than this. Doesn’t God’s love and validation of your being give you enough? It is enough for most of the religious people of the world. But you, like other extremists will not stop until there is a war.
Is that the ultimate in validation that you seek?
I think you should think about what it is you really want. Because the path that you are on is not leading to christian values at all.
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9:57 pm
“This my friends, Christians and non-Christians alike”
You have no friends.
“Such hate, hostility, the death threats”
Take a look at your “articles” and you’ll see WHY we direct hate, hostility, and death threats towards you.
“Sadly, Christians today face the greatest amount of persecution and repression than any other time in recent history”
Tell me, when was the last time a Christian white man had the crap beaten out of him by the cops?
“we are losing are rights”
Hehe, “are”. XD
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8:19 am
I have not seen a single expression of love or anything resembling what Christianity is meant to be within any of your posts except the ones saying you wish you could be friends with someone after ignorantly and purposely insulting EVERYONE (Christians and non-Christians alike) who isn’t crazier than a rabid bat on PCP.
“This my friends”,
/// you dont have any real friends, because anyone who identified with a heartless monster like you must be a heartless monster themselves///
…” Christians and non-Christians alike, this is why the subculture at hand poses such a threat to the decency of America. Just take a little peek at the comments above! Such hate, hostility, the death threats”
///most hippies are actually trying to save (and many work incredibly hard at it)the country and the world from those who think they have “dominion” over the planet but have actually been destroying it. no death “threats” were there, just sentiments of hope for the demise of someone who is hoping for the demise of everything and everyone who is intelligent enough to disagree with him and his broken English. As you can see in the same comment claiming the horrible indecencies of broken English (while most of the people commenting are simply using abbreviations or words you don’t know), you yourself made grammatical errors…OUR nation…. not ARE nation lol and what does hallacuniate mean??///
“the claims that narcotics are good for you and should be given to anyone and everyone… If you ever believed my article was speculation, you need only read the backlash above to see how very correct I was.”
//I didn’t see anyone say that, although I did see several people who claimed to be hippies refute all of the notions you asserted about the level of drug use and about being lazy,dirty,etc… ///
“Sadly, Christians today face the greatest amount of persecution and repression than any other time in recent history. Because of groups like hippies and radical liberals, we are losing are rights to express the morality that was the foundation of this nation– CHRISTIAN MORALITY. It comes from the Bible and from our leaders, not some bastardized teaching that these drug addicts hallacuniate during a drug binge. ”
// this is complete fabrication, as is this “story” you made up about knowing anything about hippies, or any part of reality for that matter..///
Even the police and law enforcement are on their side now, discriminating against Christian expressions of decency and love at every turn and giving these sex addicted narcotic pagans a a free pass.
//Why is it that Christians aren’t arrested for expressing their beliefs (maybe just told to do it outside government buildings and schools i.e. SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE!!…while hippies and other subcultures are constantly targeted and persecuted by law enforcement.!!!///
“Well, I have news for all of you. True Americans aren’t taking your crap any more. We’re standing up, we’re organizing and the Tea Party is just the beginning of the movement to restore honor in this country.”
//thank God the tea party is run by and funded by people who are just trying to give the republican party a fighting chance in the future. thank God they recruit and are adored by literally insane people so the tea party will never succeed.///
” You filthy people have destroyed all the sacred goodness of the America I have known and loved. Why do you hate us so much? Are you really that afraid of hard work and discipline, modern morality and faith? Do you realize how you’re hurting our children and their children after that? You are destroying our future and giving the terrorists more ammunition.”
// WOW I ACTUALLY WANT TO SAY THAT last quote VERBATIM RIGHT BACK TO YOU ABOUT RIGHT WING CHRISTIANS… you are destroying OUR DEMOCRACY AND BY THE WAY—-BRAINWASHED NEOCONS LIKE YOURSELF AND RONALD REAGAN, WHO INCIDENTALLY CREATED THE CONDITIONS FOR OUR ECONOMY TO COLLAPSE, LEADING TO ? MOST OF THE PROBLEMS YOUR DIRTY BIGOTED BLACK HEART WANTS TO HATE…Seriously,right back at you!!
” I think back on the heroic work of Ronald Reagan and how sad it is you have all destroyed the progress he made making the United States that shining beacon on the hill for all the world to see.”
////laughable–AGAIN WITH YOUR SKEWED SENSE OF REALITY….He was a hero IN THE MOVIES… in real life he helped to CREATE and exacerbate many of the countries BIGGEST PROBLEMS. ////
“The struggling third world used to look up to us as a paragon of Democracy and freedom. That was what used to be. How very sad.”
///ALSO, by the Reagan Administrations’ end, most of the “third world” started to hate us because our government was continuously overthrowing democratically elected governments (about 50 around the world so far) and installing dictators who killed and raped their people, and holding back the interests of the people around the world through FASCIST, MARKEDLY UNDEMOCRATIC and definitely UNCHRISTIAN means. For any that dont believe this please watch “The End of Democracy”
http://www.filmsforaction.org/Watch/The_War_On_Democracy/
and for all of you sane people please check out this website, it has hundreds of documentaries and information that is actually TRUTH SEEKING from politics to religion to the environment and is a great break from corporate media as well as raving lunatics like this guy… you HIPPIES will LOVE IT!!!
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8:38 pm
i just want to know why you feel the need to hate on every different group of people in america. you sir are un-american and should be ashamed to call yourself a christian. why do you care how different people live their lives. “let he who is without sin cast the first stone.” you are a real disgrace to our country and freedom in general
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8:52 pm
Dear Stephenson, it is I to whom you pray, I regret to inform you that I can not conceive a benefit to the Universe by granting you eternal life. If you can, please post your pleadings.
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9:12 pm
This is satire people, relax. Yes he sounds like an idiot but actually he is just the worst form of troll
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9:17 pm
I urge you to buy BYOB by System of a Down. There’s your nationalism.
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9:30 pm
hey billings……didnt you molest a 14 year old girl you sick freak?… here you are bashing hippies, and you are the lowest form of humanity yourself.
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4:53 pm
I have never molested anyone in my life and I most certainly did not touch that girl. The whole thing was blown out of proportion and it was some silly joke a child played on me because one of my articles upset here. We did not get married as people have claimed and there was absolutely NO interaction between her and I, other than discussing religion online. Please do not spread this lie, I consider it libel.
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9:46 pm
“Listen, I know the conversation gets a bit heated here sometimes but your comment goes too far. I would be happy if you apologized. Don’t you think that’s fair?”
How about you first apologize to all the homosexuals you’ve hurt with your “journalism”?
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10:03 pm
I’m not sure where to start…
I am a young woman, born and raised in what I like to call “the scene”. My relatives, all parts of the scene as well, consist of an assortment of well-rounded, non-judgmental people who all are or are aspiring to be (for the younger ones) people who assist, work, and live to help those needy and sick, to better our circumstances as a country, and to just be there for people as a whole (and I mean ALL people, no discrimination here). My friends are some of the most trustworthy, honest, and morally attuned people I have ever seen.
I am absolutely offended by the generalization of this article. I will say, (and my fiance and I have had many conversations about this) the idea’s behind the culture of “the hippies” has begun to fade away, and is giving way to a younger generation more focused on “the party” rather than “the movement”. Though, there are still plenty of us (with excellent jobs, education, and no criminal backgrounds) that enjoy what freedom and love for each other is still left.
From a religious standpoint, my fiance was raised Roman-Catholic, attended catholic school, and graduated with High Honors in Religious Studies. He, while still maintaining a catholic belief, has attended 200+ Grateful Dead concerts, and has never seen is his 25 years any sort of manipulation in regards to his beliefs/religion, or overall morals. At 12, (the age he was for his first Grateful Dead concert) he was happily embraced for WHO he was rather than WHAT he believed, and came to realize that’s exactly what “those hippies” were really working for. Also, please feel free to compare The 10 Commandments and Kharma.. they are eerily similar, aren’t they?
I think it would surprise you how many of our officials in this country (from Police to Presidents) are fans, and have attended many assorted concerts, The Grateful Dead included.
As far as the music goes, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, however, I would appreciate it if you also took into consideration the “popular” music is today. Personally, I would prefer to listen to a song which has lyrics that give me hope and feeling, and music that is left open to my own interpretation to give it meaning special for me; Rather than this “c’mon baby shake your ass” “money, guns, drugs, and hoes” “i robbed the liquor store for nuthin but a 40oz” crap I hear all over the radios, and, unfortunately, on most of our children’s ipods today.
Now the drugs… First, all these “i’m so ghetto” kids out there trying to make a buck to pay for their ice (as in DIAMONDS) and Escalades are mostly selling anything from Cocaine to prescription drugs to Heroin. All of which are proven far MORE deadly than Marijuana.
Marijuana, sure, impairs your vision, and slows yours reflexes. I’m going to guess 75% of the prescription drugs doctors hand out to children and adults alike have side affects with a list of everything under the sun! Impaired vision, tumors, blindness.. the list goes on. The association between Marijuana and Hippies is a bit disturbing. It has been both a legal, and then underground part of our countries heritage for many generations before the “Hippy Movement” even came into existence. It has been growingly accepted into the medical field as a relief for many severe illnesses. And hey, how much worse can it be than methadone? Or morphine, for that matter..?
And, history has shown, “the hippies” are FAR from self-indulgent. Participating in a range of world preserving acts, they have always had a thoughtful mind as to what we are doing to our earth, and therefore ourselves and our future generations. Fighting for causes such as the ozone, the rainforest’s, the wildlife, and recycling, we have always cared immensely for our surroundings and the world we live in. To quote Dave Matthews “Leave only your footprints”.
Our country, however, has a serious “self-indulgent” problem, in my opinion. The corporate sell-outs who dump they’re toxic waste into our oceans and kill our trees and wildlife to expand themselves, because, what… it’ll make them more profit? Please… Money has been MADE into power, corporations are NOT a necessity for this country to run, and The United States is no longer a free place.
So please, if you want to judge and blame the downfall of this country on someone, don’t target a group of stereotypes who are really only hoping and dreaming for everything this country is supposed to based on in the first place.
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11:11 am
“They wear loose, used clothing and grow their hair unnecessarily long. Both males and females adorn themselves with colorful, cheap jewelry and avoid precious metals like gold or diamonds. ”
Um yeah…that’s a great reason to be filled with hatred. I won’t even try to go into how wrong you are because really great points have already been made which you will surely ignore. You, sir, are ignorant and I actually feel very very sorry for you.
May God forgive you for YOUR judgements.
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8:44 am
Billings, Check this out (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k4zTAe7TGw) and consider changing your views about marijuana. Your ignorant perspective and lack of information causes your extreme bias towards a harmless plant God gave us dominion over.. That’s what He made it for. So, please, go and be an investigative journalist… and investigate. Present both sides and let your reader choose. Don’t just falsely blog propaganda. You might actually convince someone that you know what you are talking about, and ruin another innocent child’s life.
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8:50 am
Beck is a Mormon and Mormonism is not Christianity. While I admire the man’s passion, he does not hold dominion over me. He is wrong and you are wrong. Modern “pot” has been crafted by narco-scientists to be deadly and highly addicted. Its potency is through the roof. For you people to continue this campaign that it’s harmless is simply the most surreal moment in recent political history. You’ve all been clearly smoking too much of that stuff and are lost in your own sick, sick delusions. I hope you’re happy tripping on that skanky weed, destroying your future potential as a contributor to the US economy and inevitably destroying all those great things America once was.
“I have always believed that there was some divine plan that placed this great continent between two oceans to be sought out by those who were possessed of an abiding love of freedom and a special kind of courage.” –President Ronald Reagan.
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12:47 pm
Give 1…. 1 death related to this terribly harmful and deadly drug… by the way this terrible fucking country we were tricked into thinking was great, makes and owns this terrible harmful plant that God made… doesn’t really make sense stevie. You are the worst blogger/person I have ever encountered. Marijuana is no more deadly or addictive than it ever was… which it never has been proven to.
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1:15 pm
//I hope you’re happy tripping on that skanky weed, destroying your future potential as a contributor to the US economy and inevitably destroying all those great things America once was.
I am happy with my skanky weed. It helps with my cancer,(unlike your GREAT CUNTry’s R&D, God prevailed and made a plant that can relieve my side effects without ANY side effects itself(unless you consider complete happiness and compassion for all things God created a side effect, I call it blessed)) so therefore, I am going to continue being “blessed” by the Lord’s creation and take pride in my beliefs.
Get Blessed Billings!!! You Desprately need it.
If you don’t like my fire then don’t come around, cause I’m gonna burn one down – Ben Harper
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7:43 am
…”You’ve all been clearly smoking too much of that stuff and are lost in your own sick, sick delusions.”…
I, for one, do not smoke. I do not smoke, drink, or take any other drugs. I drink a little bit of coffee in the morning (which i have cut back to less than 1/2 a cup a day because I am 8 months pregnant), I take Tums for my new battle with terrible heartburn, and an inhaler as needed for my asthma. and Yes! This “hippy” was COMPLETELY sober when writing that first response!! Can you believe it???
Yet again, you are being way too judgmental.. Just because I, or any of us, posted a response arguing or disagreeing with your opinions, we’re all hopped up on a bunch of drugs and don’t know what we’re talking about. You shouldn’t be so quick to ASSume things, Billings.
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10:17 pm
Billings! I received a memo from St. Peter telling me that you have done some things in the life that will not allow you into Heaven! I am making some plans for you down here and we are all awaiting your arrival! You’re ass is MINE, Billings! Mwahahahahahahaha !!!
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10:18 pm
Billings! I received a memo from St. Peter telling me that you have done some things in this life that will not allow you into Heaven! I am making some plans for you down here and we are all awaiting your arrival! You’re ass is MINE, Billings! Mwahahahahahahaha !!!
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10:20 pm
mr billings ,your what’s wrong with this world . hippies are more like Jesus then you, every hippy would tell you its not about killing or invading . hippies would tell you its about treating everyone with kindness and ,why is health care a for profit business.? hippies think we all should have access to health care and good nutrition .hippies were on the peaceful side of war in Viet nam .O who was right then ?the hippies were right back in the 60s .
when bush started a illegal war and invasion of Iraq .the hippies were on the don’t do it bush .in hind site would support invading a country that had nothing to do with 911 and did not have weapon of mass destruction ..so, the hippies were right then again /so Mr billing don’t you wish you could go back in time and be come hippy .
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10:46 pm
Every word you said is wrong and i dont know where, out of some part of your ass, you pulled this load of horse shit – piss off and may god forsaken your soul
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11:05 pm
Sir, as a Christian, I find this article HIGHLY offensive. I became a Christian in 1974, and was converted at that time by members of the Jesus Movement, also called Jesus Freaks. If you will remember, these were HIPPIES that followed our Lord.
Why do you feel that it is serving Christ to make such hate-filled generalizations about a group of people? Christ called us not to judge, but to love. Yet I see nothing but judgementalism in this article. You sir shame the name of our Lord with this article. Are you merely trying to gain attention? This is NOT the sort of attention the cause of Jesus needs–nor do you represent more than a small, sadly mislead fringe of a faith that teaches just the opposite of what you write here.
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11:35 am
Hilarious!! What an ass you are Steven!! Your pathetic, narrow views are too easy of a target, I’m gonna just have to say fuck off. If there was a hell, you’re exactly the type of person who’s headed there, have fun! Your life must be incredibly boring and en-eventful if this is what you spend you time doing. I’m curious, what bands do you listen too? Some good ‘ol praise-rock perhaps?
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12:51 am
First of all, it’s Phish, not “the” Phish.
Second of all, before you go around insulting millions of people, think about what it means to be a Christian. Isn’t accepting others a huge part of it? It very hypocritical to insult people, while at the same time calling yourself a Christian.
I have no set denomination for my beliefs, but I know that whatever God or Gods there may be, if they are what we believe them to be, will not segregate by any means. Sure if someone has led a life of complete evil, they may have some redemption to do, but no God figure would condem someone to a life of suffering. It wouldn’t make sense.
I love the band Phish, they are really my life. If you think that because I enjoy there music and culture I am a bad person, you are wrong. I spend most of my time helping others, I am focused on my school work and get good grades, I am at an above average intelligence level, and I am a kind, caring person. I can think of many so-called “Christians” that are way worse of people.
I would also like to point out that I am 15 years old, and the music of Phish and The Dead have brought my dad and I together, giving us a sense of closeness for the first time in my life. We call ourselves Hippies, yet my dad works for my school district and is a great citizen. Just because someone believes in peace, listens to “hippie-rock,” and doesn’t let society bring them down doesn’t give you room to insult them. You just stereotyped so many people. My dad is a GREAT Christian, His wife, my mom, is also a great Christian. How can you describe some activities of people that you don’t even know, and then say you hate them all. This is near racism. You are the bad Christian here. I’m sorry that you don’t understand what love and peace is really about. For the record, as I stated above, I am a 15 year old Hippie, and I wrote all of the above comment. As you can see by the level of my writing, I am not dumb, stupid, nor will I ever be a disgrace to society.
Also, the kids in my school that smoke marijuana are the “gangster” ghetto-acting kids. They get there drugs from people like themselves, not hippies. Most hippies that smoke wouldn’t sell to a little kid anyway, whereas someone in the drug business would sell to anyone to get their money. Push the blame to the ones who deserve it, before you just insult without any hard facts or evidence.
As another side note, any typos in this comment are because of my iPod’s predictive type. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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1:00 am
I thought only God can judge us…. I love god and believe in him and worship him so who are you to say what you call hippies are so against your religion? Why don’t you let the master do his job and stop your non educated stereotyping. God accepts everyone and everyone is a child of God. Maybe you should be kind to everyone and give people a chance…this makes you nor even sound like a christian…
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1:07 am
Present some real sociological facts instead of mindlessly regurgitating 1960s right-wing propoganda about ‘Hippies’, drug taking and fear of human difference, and people might take you seriously.
Otherwise, you’re just another lame, deluded fundamentalist nutter – every bit as loopy as the hippies you claim to be writing about.
P.s God is a human fabrication.
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1:19 am
you are wrong. I am a hippie and I have been sober for 3 yrs. I pray everyday, I am in college, and I have a girlfriend. I also rape puppies and eat tofu, but thats beside the point. I will pray for you, becuase although you would never admit it, you are miserable and sad.
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2:06 am
billings is a brilliant satirist because that was so over the top ridiculous, i’m not even mad, just laughing my ass off! “The Phish”?! HA HA HA this is great! bravo! ha ha ha ignorant fundies!
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2:12 am
wow, this is a battle between the religious right, the hippie dippie save the trees left, and a bunch of overgrown children.
nothing interesting to read here.
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2:52 am
You know what’s most humorous about this? The fact that all you commentors actually think this is not satire. There are dumb, misinformed and zealous people in the world, but seriously…do any of you think anyone is as stupid and self contradicting as this ‘stephenson billings’ character? lol…you all got trolled by a humorist. This is a big joke, nothing more. I have to believe that, because to believe there are people this stupid would kinda crush my faith in humanity. Has no one else noticed every response is so far out to lunch and purely crafted to elicit angry responses? Come on people, wake up. Stop feeding this troll. It’s probably written by some Harvard drop out who’ll write a pulitzer winning book about his experiences trolling the interwebs one day.
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3:28 am
Hey Billings you fucking retard have you ever heard the phrase “What would Jesus do?” Everything you said in your propaganda filled slanderous article completely defies anything that Jesus Christ would have done. I was raised a Christian and still believe strongly in God and I don’t think there is anything wrong with loving everyone, Phish and Grateful Dead fans included, as they happen to be my two favorite bands. Jesus did not judge anyone no matter what their color, their interests, or how baggy their fucking clothes were. You are a mindless hypocritical man and you express hate towards millions of people which is something your boy Jesus Christ never did towards anyone. You sound more like Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Castro, Hussein, and Bin Laden than someone who believes in God. I hope you realize this before you croak because otherwise you’re not gonna be seeing any of the pearly white gates buddy.
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4:44 am
I really feel sorry for you.Your life must be full of pitiful missery. You now have brought on to you all this negative hatered. You may not belive in Karma but there are many who do in this world and it will come back on you three folds if it hasn’t already. Those who belive in the Real Word understand what tolerance and compassion is for your fellow human being. Yes you ARE Your Brothers Keeper. You are not the one to condem this world and those who walk upon it..that is for God to decide. I have known many who hide their evilness behind the closed doors of their so called churches. Who exploit children, old, sick and dying. I have found more communion among those you so easily condem then from so called “christians”. Why it was the own preachers daughter who decied that my daughter was a witch because she read the Harry Potter books. Do not condem those you do not know or understand you do not have that right because YOU ARE NO BETTER THAN ANYBODY ELSE ON THIS EARTH. BTW If it wasnt for ‘mary jane’ and her lovely, smelly sisters I would not still be alive. I am a colon cancer survivor of 12 years who could not have made it through chemo without pot. And I truly belive my sister, who we lost at 45, would also still be here if it had been legalized much sooner. So now go take your tylenol for that headache thats comeing on, your heartburn meds before that acid starts creeping up your throat, your heart meds so your enlarged heart doesnt kill you, your prozac for those panic attacks that all these pissed off people may actully know where you live…oh and dont forget that viagra pill because without that that hookers not going to stick around very long. SO stick that in your pipe and smoke on it!
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6:12 am
If this is not the funniest thing I read all day it’s because this day has some more truly inspired lunacy in store for me. Bring it on, October 17th!
PS dear author, stay off the meds! You’re making us smile!
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7:39 am
“These are people who have managed to deny every positive cultural change of the last 50 years.”
And the Pot has the nerve to call the Kettle, WHAT?
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10:34 am
IRREGARDLESS
OXYCOTTON
Your ignorance is showing!
A hateful idiot is a dastardly combination.
You have NO IDEA what you are talking about, and you are the epitome of why I avoid the ev”angelical” x-ians. People who use their religion as a guise to be intolerant and hateful are the antithesis of Christ-like behavior.
Hippies are all about LOVE. Love for the earth and all creatures great and small. Personally I can’t stand the music, attire, or drugs- but many of these people are readers and dreamers of a PEACEFUL world.
The evangelist/ Dominionist Xian agenda of infiltrating the government sector is making the world exactly the opposite of that. So much narrow-minded vitrol against people who are not exactly like you. And we wonder about the recently publicized high school and online bullying and the recent increase (read: publicized) in suicides.
If you are having a hard time with being accepted, perhaps you ought to consider being ACCEPTING. “At night all cats are grey”. We’re all the same, we all have hopes and dreams, loves and fears. This anti- any other religion, sexual preference, dress style, music preference, is exclusionary and NOT anything like what your Jesus would approve of. He DEFINITELY was a HIPPIE, and that is why I LOVE HIM.
But you and your ilk, with your gay-bashing, Muslim- or Eastern Religion intolerance, and the separatist NONACCEPTING and HATEFUL of what/ who are different from you make me SICK.
This is not making the world a better place- your spreading of ignorance and hate. Fortunately, you’re ill-informed and lack the most basic English grammar rules and anyone with half a brain can see through you.
Good luck in your afterlife; you FAIL here on this planet.
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10:42 am
That was SO FUNNY! I’m gonna read my Rastafarian Bible, listen to my favorite politician Ron Paul and light up a huge joint!
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10:42 am
Wow! You sir, are an immense idiot. This is a prime example how “faith” and hate usurps morality and logic.
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11:14 am
most effective terrorist organization in the world: united states of america
want some examples?
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11:17 am
is this for real? or is this satire?
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11:26 am
Stupidity is, quite unfortunately incurable. What pisses me off about you (and others like you) is the audacious nature in which you refer to yourselves as Christian, & then turn around and act so un-Christlike! That article is so filled with misinformation it’s utterly ridiculous. You OBVIOUSLY never met one of these treacherous hippies! Your description of the Grateful Dead’s music had me laughing so hard! And then you said it’s played on “lowest quality instruments through speakers purchased at toy stores.” OMGosh! All you need do, you idiot, is google “wall of sound” to learn that is anything but true! And the instruments are all made by expert luthiers and drum makers! You are a TRUE American terrorist, & people like you are the reason so much of the world HATES the United States. I haven’t read any of your other posts, but I’m sure they are all written with as little research & truth as this one. You convey that war is a Christian activity, but did Christ himself not tell Peter to put down the sword when the guards arrived in the garden? You are not a Christian, you are a radical fundamentalist with a twisted perception of the true interpretation of your faith…not at all unlike Osama Binladen. YOU ARE A TERRORIST. God and the Bible encourage us to be educated and informed. They teach us to seek the TRUTH from God…try reading Jeremiah 33:3. Hate is NOT a Christian value. Christ was an advocate of peace and tolerance. So you are baptist? Wouldn’t possibly be Westborough Baptist, would it? You sound just as fanatical as the anti-Christ Fred Phelps. Wake up man…don’t you know ONLY GOD has the right to judge?
Here’s a little quote from a BAPTIST church sign:
“The Grateful Dead is Christian Music, & God loves Jerry”
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11:30 am
“Hi, I’m Bill Hicks and I’m dead now.”
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sZZ4oiGIGeU/Sgw5nLmjn0I/AAAAAAAAAY4/w1bBTfgTrws/s1600/bill+hicks+-+obama+hero.jpg
“If you don’t think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD’s and burn them.”
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11:35 am
SUCK ON THIS BILLINGS!
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11:47 am
You’re hating on the one culture based on Love?
Jesus would be ashamed of you.
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11:58 am
Yeah Stevie boy, and how many times have you yanked your pud while looking at the photos of those hippie chicks?
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12:11 pm
Well, now that you have attacked us hippies with unfounded stereotypes, let us take a look at your high and mighty Christian lot. “They are destroying Christianity and subjugating the faithful. What will this world be without the vital righteous leadership of the United States?”–Hmmm…Lets’ see–Pastor Ted Haggard, sought the services of a male prostitute, used Crystal Meth with him, and New Life Church used congregant’s hard earned tithe monies to hush up a young male congregant with whom Pastor Ted had a relationship of a sexual nature. – Bishop Eddie Long, of an Atlanta Mega church, had homosexual encounters with at least 4 of his church members. Remember Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart or how about the billions of dollars the Catholic church has paid out for lawsuits because of priests molesting children. Are Hippies really the problem Steven? It would seem the righteous religious leaders “are destroying Christianity and subjugating the faithful” without the help of the hippies. Maybe they are the reason for your crumbling faith. Maybe hippies have the ability to see through the hypocrisy of the so-called righteous.
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12:16 pm
Mr.Billings , Please go phuk yourself .
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12:28 pm
I love Jesus but i also would love to smoke marijuana with the gorgeous hippie in the red dress and then exchange my God-given bodily fluids with her if she so desired!
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12:37 pm
Oh boy… I am Jesus here to tell all of you that Steve is gay… he does indeed like to finger small boys. Im sorry Steve but I cannot hold back from letting the public know about what a fucking dildo loving faggot you are. I remember the time you dressed yourself up like a school girl and jerked off all over pictures of me. I have to admit you made my holy cock hard. I have to say everyone should stop following me and my sexy dad named God… its all a scam! We are not real but weak minded people like Steve need to have something to believe in and give reason to why their penises are so small or why their pussies smell so awful… I am Jesus and I look like a hippie so Steve go fuck yourself and take your religious beliefs and place them straight up your ass… the same way all the faggot ass priests do with kids.
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12:38 pm
do you know fred phelps? you all should join forces and see what kind of hate-filled cult you could form. then you can all go to hell together!
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1:00 pm
hahaha billings shes rite u and phelps would get along sooo well. you should write an article about how awesome his church is you judgmental prick.
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12:43 pm
It is not the hippies that is spreading this so called “foul disease”. It is you and anyone who believes in this attempt to corrupt even more “young and old alike, drawing blood oaths from the innocent”. So sir, this also makes you a hypocrite. You speak from ignorance. Before you begin to change the world, you must first change yourself.
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12:57 pm
billings after reading all the comments on this page i think its safe to say… you lose. stop trying. give up. YOU ARE WRONG MOTHER FUCKER!!! hahahaha
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1:52 pm
Just sayin’.
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It offends me that any church that believes itself in the service of God would openly state such incredible things.
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“It offends me that any church that believes itself in the service of God would openly state such incredible things.”
Your existence offends me. So… if I go tear down that sign, would you kill yourself?
Please?
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1:57 pm
What idiot wrote this….. get back in your box it’s safe in there! The rest of us will continue to live our lives free! The most important American Concept! We will freely exercise our freedom of religion! How unAmerican of us. A large portion of our founding father were anti-religion and anti-Christian….. research your reality! That’s why we have freedom of religion. Hey at least you admitted that Christianity in this country is a new fade! Me, I will hold true to our founding fathers concepts! They can become the people that our founding fathers left Europe to get away from. I will continue wearing Scarlet Begonias in my hair!
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There are “hippies” from all walks of life, and whom still practice many diffrent religons including christianity. We do not aim to distroy America by any means, but to change it for the better. It is true we have little to no faith in your government, but over time you have given us many reasons for that. We do not promote the illegal substances for children, but believe if you make your own choice to smoke weed or what have you, when you are old enough, by all means your life is your own. We fight to keep our so called “free country” without us society would fall to the government and we would slowly loose that freedom, along with our rights, just like were loosing our unions. You are only afraid, just like your afraid of the communists. We preach non violence, love, peace, freedom, and happiness for all people, no matter where their from or what they believe in, and no matter what you do we will always be here to stop you from turing everyone into pawns and robots! cheers.
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um, hello? doesn’t anyone know this whole website is a satire? brilliant!
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1. Jesus was an Essene, an ascetic Jew who lived outside of the “normal” societal structure. The Essenes shared their possessions, lived by agriculture and handicrafts, rejected slavery, and believed in the immortality of the soul. Their meals were solemn community affairs.
2. Manna that the people of Israel received from heaven during
their wandering through the Sinai desert was actually an entheogen. (entheogen is a psychotropic)
3. Most historical accounts of all religious ceremony involve the use of a psychotropic.
4.The Essenes were known for the use of a psychotropic that would render the user comatose for up to three days…
5. Jesus had long hair. There is a picture of one of the kids with dark hair and a goatee…funny he actually looks like our canonized images of Jesus
These facts off the top of my head….not to refute the author necessarily – more to show how little most “people of faith” know anything of their religion – and how often they use that religion as a cloak so they can freely express their fear-mongering hateful bigotry.
And this article is a classic example…
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It saddens me to read so much hate in one article. To give one group of people so much power is in itself hillarious to read. As though, one group of people have the ability to destroy the common good of a whole society is nothing more than an attempt to belittle those that have not the same faith as yourself. I have learned in this life is that when people judge others it is out of their own insecurities and fear. In some cases, hate is established from the fear of the unknown and your fears shine through this whole article. To advise your fellow christians to be weary of “hippies” is in itself a put down to their own faith. Should your christian followers have a strong and unshakable faith then you would advise them to open their hearts to these people and show them the value of living the Christian life. Instead, you are teaching your followers and fellow Christians to fear those that need the most help. Now granted, most of your article is nothing more than a generalization of your own opinions of Hippies and is more fictional than anything, but all your article really expresses is it’s okay to judge others when it strengthens your faith. I am a Christian, which is a very broad term, as I am a Christian that believes in nonjudgemental living as Christ lived his life. If I am not mistaken, his foundation of his beliefs was that we should not judge or wish harm on anyone including our enemies but find acceptance and ask God to forgive them for their wrongdoings.
As I have said I am a Christian and I guess you would also consider me a hippy… I am drug free, married w/ two children, vote on a regular basis, work a full time white collared job, I shower daily, and still chase down the music every chance I get. I listen to the dead as I clean my house, Widespread Panic when I take my SUV down to the grocery store, and listen to phish when I rake the leaves in my yard. I care for the environment and care even more about the political issues this country is facing. I care about teen pregnancy that is on a rise in this country, a statistic that is extremely high in our african american society (which as you proclaim our hippie society is mostly caucasion), I am concerned about our jail systems being overcrowded again with mostly our young african american men (do I really need to quote the caucasion quote again?!?), I am also concerned with single parenting homes in this society which again is on the rise. All of these concerns are EVERYONE’S problems and cannot be blamed on one culture in this society. You article is so far from any truth that you should be ashamed and you should be asking forgiveness for your judgements!
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6:41 pm
those who cannot see the truth before them, where should they look?
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2:41 pm
and here on the other hand just your top five serial murderers of all time…just your average clean cut Christian….fit right into your society Mr. Billings? Don’t they??
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Pipe dream…
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I dont know why you would say pipe dream…
those men are actual serial killers…starting with Ted Bundi top left…included are Jeffrey Dahmer, Albert Fish, Joachim Kroll, Dennis Rader….not in that order, but thats what they look like, clean cut average white men…
its also disturbing is that 95% of all convicted child molest/murderers are white males between the ages of 30 and 65, predominantly from and inside the US…our lovely JudeoChristian culture has those statistics to brag about…
sorry to ruin your little theory…but it aint the hippies….
if you don’t believe me just talk to anyone who works with the penal system, anywhere in this country…
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“irregardless” — the author has intelligence just spewing out of every orifice — by the way, a hippie has nothing to do with dress or drug use, it’s an open, loving, and curious state of mind that you probably will never understand because you are so close minded and terrified of things you don’t know.
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is this guy for real. i mean wow what is wrong with this stephenson billings. christ taught us to love one another and to lead by example not hate. its christians like you that give other christians a bad name. remember christ taught love and forgiveness. not hate and dictatorship.
phish does suk though. but i do find “the phish” funny as hell. god bless the grateful dead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(~);} and lord please forgive stephenson billings for being a moron……..also its oxycontin not oxycotton…….or is that oxycleaned cotton……….what an idiot……well im off to jerk off to jerry with my left hand while i take bong hits with my right hand…………..i love hippies!!!!!!!!
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This is the least factual article I’ve ever seen besides the bible. You said hippies love “ice” and “crystal meth”. You fail because those two refer to the same drug and because a god fearing chris-chun trucker is more likely to be a meth head than a hippie. And “nexus” is called 2c-b dumbass nobody calls it nexus.
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Dear Mr. Billings,
There are several points in your article that could use some clarification, beginning with your title… The term hippie is political and is derived from the counter culture movement that began in the mid sixties. Furthermore, the hippie culture existed long before the sixties and has its roots in the beat culture of the 40s and 50s. Much of the counterculture mentality can be traced to the post world war two industrial complex and the complications it presents to morally sound Americans, many of whom share the Christian ideals you have shared in your article. The only way to dissociate ourselves from the rampant production of weaponry is by participating in artistic expression, often times in the form of music. If you’d like to talk about the conformity within the jam band music scene then I’d also like to talk about the conformity within the Catholic church and its followers.
How about this, how many deaths has the Catholic church been responsible for since its inception, and how many deaths have the Grateful Dead and Phish been responsible for?
Why has the term hippie persisted when other labels such as “beat” have become obsolete when they essentially share the same principles? Because of the simplicity in the label; look at the pictures you have posted in your article, they all include Caucasians with dreadlocks in their hair and puppies. Do you know that dreadlocks are a form of religious expression to members of the Rastafarian religion and by including them in your profile of hippies you have essentially coupled two unconnected ideals? It’s extremely easy to look at someone and call them a hippie, just as it’s easy to look at someone like yourself and call them a religious fanatic.
I have a question for you directly. What is the extent of your musical training? Do you understand the underlying chordal and melodic structures that form the basis of most Grateful Dead and Phish songs? Do you realize that a plethora of Grateful Dead songs are in fact covers of the some of the greatest American musicians from the past century? Where would your Christian rock and gospel music be without the musical evolution that all musicians of the modern era draw upon? Again, the coupling of two unconnected topics is cheap and without concrete evidence.
You speak of “constitutional americanism…” When the founding fathers created the notion of separation of church and state, they sought to keep the government out of religion, and not the other way around. If you have ever taken an American history course or bothered to read a book other than the bible you might understand this principle, as well as others that have differed greatly since the inception of the consitution, and which you use to attack the “hippie” culture.
Are you afraid of being naked on a beach because you weren’t provided with an adequately sized member? Have you ever been to Europe? Why is everyone in America afraid of being naked? Were you born with an Eddie Bauer button up on?
“On a personal level, a hippie can be defined as a person who will abuse drugs until the day he or she dies, irregardless of health issues or pleas from their children. ” You said this in your article right? Firstly, irregardless is not a real word, use spell check before publishing and your electronic buddy might save you some embarrassment. When you say abuse drugs what are you talking about? Do you take heart medication? Or tylenol? Those are drugs. Did you know that the biggest drug problem in America stems from pharmaceuticals and the fact that they are subsidized by our government? Also, marijuana is not deadly and has not been responsible for any documented deaths. None. And are you serious about children begging their parents to stop taking drugs? Can you imagine… little Billy… Stop taking Excedrin mommy!!! Your killing yourself!!!
It’s clear from your article and the lack of a reference section that you have done no research and draw upon personal bias. Your sentence structure is consistently weak and riddled with words that do not exist. You have exemplified your willingness to participate in widespread segregation against your own countrymen (and women) in a form that has given America a tainted reputation throughout the rest of the world. Go back to school and get learned son.
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Marcus, it’s unfortunate that your writing style is so very dull since you need something to cover up the fact that you’re a complete idiot.
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well at least he’s right. but i guess we have found out why you keep writeing with such “passion”
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I wondered how long it would be before they gave Tony Alamo access to the internet in prison. Glad to see you’re still as loony as ever, Tone. Keep up the propaganda. I need a good laugh from time to time. Cheers to you!
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4:32 pm
This is the biggest piece of crap I’ve ever read. Stephenson Billings, you have no idea what you’re talking about, clearly know nothing about music, and are essentially the scum of the earth. People like you make me absolutely sick.
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4:32 pm
This is fucking hilarious. Satire or not, a great read. Completely devoid of facts, no basis in reality and well written to boot. I give this 5 stars. And 2 thumbs up my butt.
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fuck you stupid goddamn christians
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Kristen: I understand your anger with this article.. I really do.. but remember, one of the reasons this article is so upsetting is because of the generalization he’s trying to argue and the stereotypical judgements he’s putting out. By you saying “fuck you stupid goddamn christians” you are doing the same thing he is; generalizing a whole stereotype based on one idiot..
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5:10 pm
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…i’ve never read anything so ridiculously closed minded in my life!! hilarious
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5:19 pm
Seems the vast majority of so-called Christians have selectively (or conveniently) forgotten about how I was taught; ‘treat your brethren as you would wish to be treated’.
Sometimes the mystery of selective inattention escapes those who claim vehemently to be God’s Chosen few.
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5:26 pm
What a total bozo.
How can you sit there and spout such falsehoods?
I am a vet, college educated, Christian, married for over 25 years, and the parent of 2 wonderful children and a HIPPIE. I have been a hippie since 1965, and am happy to be one. Hippies believe in peace and love, you know, those things Jesus told us to do. Perhaps you should take off the blinders and take a look around. What a simpleton you are.
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5:26 pm
As a journalist, you should be ashamed of yourself and your article. Journalism is based on fact and evidence for which you must have SOURCES. This is no better than the TRASH one would read from the National Enquirer.
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5:30 pm
Thank you for this great article! It is well written as can be seen by the comments. So many people can’t tell satire from fact, mostly because they are so wrapped up in their own heads. (This is SATIRE PEOPLE!!) I love you guys and love your site! Keep up the great work!
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I have been a Christian nearly all of my life. I love the Lord and I think the biggest way we can live that is by giving the same love back. But I have to say, it isn’t entirely fair to lump everyone into the same category. I’m very active in my church, but thoroughly enjoy the likes of Phish, the Dead, Dave Matthews Band, etc. Christianity is all aboout love. If a man chooses to have long hair and attend a Phish concert, that doesn’t mean anything except for he has great taste in music. I used to be an avid pot smoker and did LSD one time. All that did was give me experience to know when my son is hiding getting high from me, God willing we won’t ever have to reach that point. I don’t like it when I tell someone that I’m a Christian and they automatically assume I’m going to judge them. But what I loathe even more is one of my own putting someone down for their lifestyle. If we want to reach out to people, we have to show them the same love that Christ showed. A gay couple attended our church and someone told my father “People like that shouldn’t be here” and my father said “This is exactly where they need to be.” If only more people felt that way.
No one deserves to die or be attacked. I feel sorry for the people of the Church of Topeka who think they’re in the right by saying that “God Hates Fags!” God doesn’t hate anybody. Not my God, anyway.
Consitutional Americanism, while I would love to say that Christianity is a big part of that, it’s not. We have the right to be Christians, but people also have the right not to be. I may not agree with it, but that’s what this country was founded on.
I’m all for you reaching out and trying to change the world. It’s a heavy burden to carry. But don’t fuel the fire by putting down. All this talk about dangerous socialist agenda and “what kind of Hell awaits” is exactly what Satan wants to hear. A few Christian radicals get on the news and before you know it, I’m the enemy. It’s not good for anybody.
I hope this finds you well and God bless you and yours.
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6:11 pm
irregardless
an erroneous word that, etymologically, means the exact opposite of what it is used to express,
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Jesus teaches love, forgiveness, and the beauty of being humble. You are preaching fear, hate, lies, and an ignorant opinion. Please have the courage to make better use of your time and energy… follow the example of the one who means so much to you, be a healer not a hater. And by the way, the people you call hippies don’t have a “plan” to corrupt people, that is just ridiculous slander.
“Let he who has not sinned cast the first stone”
-This is not you, so put your stones down.
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7:09 pm
I grew up on a hippy commune:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT3U-IYob8E&feature=related
Although this is obviously written by a hilarious brilliant genius to give us some gut wrenching good laughs,
there really are people who think like this. They tortured me every day when I started attending public school off the commune for being a “hippy” and for being vegetarian. This one jesus freak girl tried to preach to me every day that I was a sinner for not eating animal corpses! LOL
All the loving Christian God fearing rednecks would harrass, bully, threaten, kick, punch, trip, spit on me just because I was from the hippy commune. Jesus would be so proud of them for their wonderful christian behavior! lol
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7:39 pm
your a complete fucking moron.
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7:46 pm
Buddha: “Mindfulness and loving kindness for all beings.”
Christ: “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” (John 13:34-35)
Mr. Stephenson Billings seems to be one of those Christians more concerned about judgment, control and patriarchy than showing Christs love. Christs disciples included homeless people, prostitutes, frauds, murderers and fornicators.
Mr. Stephenson Billings is throwing stones from his glass house and passing judgment with little foundation to his arguments except that there are pictures of people with dreadlocks smiling and others being arrested.
I could just as easily post pictures of white folks in ‘Bible belt’ USA being arrested for drug abuse, spousal abuse and any number of other infractions.
Funny thing is I still tolerate their pasty white tan-lined skin on public beaches and they’re welcome to chill their anytime.
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7:47 pm
wow, that is one of the nastiest conspiracy theories I have heard for a long time. Obviously Stephenson isn’t big on the detail of Jesus’ message, preferring hate, intolerance and conspiracy over everything else.
My advice to Mr Billings is to stay off the drugs! Mind altering substances are the only reason I can think of to explain how anyone could come up with such a bizarre theory.
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7:51 pm
Seems like you have an opinion, and if someone has a differing opinion they must be too stupid/ignorant/high/uneducated/impatient to see the truth. That’s a lot of names to call anyone who disagrees with you. That’s good. Name-calling is a great way to side-step having to put forth any type of logical argument.
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8:00 pm
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid557904866001?bctid=629295299001
quoting you: “The Phish play for a younger, more innocent crowd less concerned about social activism and more preoccupied with a sarcastic disdain for conformity. The songs revolve around the absurd, yet still force the simpleminded to celebrate self-indulgence and radical consumerism. For fans of The Phish, life is about expressing an identity through purchasing “green” products and watching adult cartoons.”
this guy in the video is a member from Phish, he is a ‘hippy’ which proves your an ‘evil, ignorant, annoying bastard.’
shannon
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8:04 pm
This is satire right? Either that or somebody drank all of the Stupid Kool-Aide the Tea Party is passing out.
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8:20 pm
And you call yourself a Christian!!! All I hear is judging and condemning. For one, you are not God. Two, your article is babble, go get an education!! I am a college graduate, and am very religious, but I know plenty of hippies that are way smarter than you, and also very more Christian than you. You’re just stereotyping, discriminating jerk!!
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8:21 pm
The band is simply named ‘Phish’ not The Phish, perhaps providing an insight into the level of research you put into your most recent conspiracy theory.
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8:23 pm
I am a practicing Christian. And I am a practicing hippie. What do you have to say about that? Something for you to think about: It is all about perception.
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8:25 pm
Hippies are like jeans. They never die; they just fade!!!
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8:25 pm
“Loathe to contribute to our domestic economy, they have long eschewed the acceptable consumerism so vital for our engines of growth…”
Mr. Billings, regarding your comment herein, you do realize that attending a music concert (example: The Phish) is not free. In addition to the cost of the concert tickets, there are travel, lodging, and dining costs associated with attending such an event, as well as the sales tax added to said costs.
Any town hosting a concert by The Phish can expect around $1,000,000 to be pumped in to their local economy.
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8:46 pm
::pulls out wang::
::masturbates furiously to gay kiddie porn::
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9:37 pm
Moses ate mushrooms, and Jesus smoked pot. Heroin cultivation is forced upon middle east farmers by the US government. The constitution is written on hemp paper, and has been horribly misconstrewed… And i thought kiddie porn masterbation was a catholic fad.
P.S. any “hippie” response has far outweighed your arguments in thought, meaning, and moral fiber.
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9:05 pm
The doctrine of atonement assumed
that the human race could be
rendered eligible for salvation
by the most awful sacrifice imaginable;
one member of the trinity should perish.
More than likely, it was the ego death
that makes salvation from labor possible
More than likely, it was one element
of the human personality that must
perish so that the divine can flourish.
Because they revere a god
that condemns people to endless torture
for seeking knowledge and
expressing themselves
fundamentalists are angered by people
who openly encourage other people to seek it.
Some people self appoint themselves
to see that people live in this darkness.
People should be offended
by a God who condemned humankind
to endless torture for the sin of seeking knowledge.
But no they covered this error
by letting him change his mind
and forgive some of the sinners
provided they ate the flesh and blood of his first son
(a ceremony celebrating thanksgivings
for abundance with animal sacrifices).
They knew this was weak so they let
this son be the father, descend to Sophia’s realm
and feign death and resurrection
to give his life only to take it away again.
This self possessed and aloof,
this loving but vengeful, condescending, unsuffering
hierophant decreed his own painful murder,
then punished those who carried out the order.
This blood thirsty, son-killing,
suicidal father of himself,
who was one but three,
who proclaimed mercy but demanded obedience;
who promised care for his perishable sons
but prepared an infinite, inclusive,
eternal hellfire for unbelievers.
He ordained all things at the
beginning but holds humans responsible
for the errors he knew they would make.
This God spoke in gentle loving terms
but ruled with fear.
People pointed out the errors of this myth.
Those people were called false prophets,
pagans, devils, witches, sorcerers, demons, pagans,
heathens, heretics, and sinners,
but as their lord has said,
they know they are gods.
People living out the will of the creator
will threaten people who believe
they will die and lay buried until some future resurrection.
I assure you: The gift of life is
irrevocable, eternal and imperishable.
Nevertheless, other people have
dedicated their lives to convert or eliminate unbelievers.
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9:21 pm
I am disgusted by your article. Do you honestly claim to be a man of God after so much biased hatred lies within your words?
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9:28 pm
“then God way up in Heaven, for whatever it was worth, thought he’d throw a big old party, thought he’d call it planet Earth” – Grateful Dead
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10:31 pm
Man, it’s amazing stupid you people are.
There is no way in hell this guy is for real, and anyone who thinks otherwise is an idiot.
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11:04 pm
When I retired from service, I found that the price of a haircut had gone from a quarter to a sawbuck, and that soap was no longer free. For the past 29 years, then, I’ve avoided haircuts or beard trims entirely, and minimized use of soap.
Just so you know why this retired O4 so much offends your eyes and nose.
No street drugs involved.
It’s purely a matter of economics.
xanthian.
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11:14 pm
you are whats wrong w the world. i m a hippie(i never called myself one til some one else did) i don t have long hair. i am very athletic. i am not an unintelligent person. you put us down for wearing battered clothing. go fuck yourself you materialistic bastard. you put us down for not wearing expensive jewlerey (which is rediculous there s alot of very nice jewlerey being made by”hippies”) go fuck yourself again. you say your a christian, HA i don t believe it. i thought christianity taught spiritual wealth over matereal wealth and you obviosly are a poor excuse for one. you give the rest of your religion a bad name and you should be ashamed of yourself.
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11:22 pm
Everything exist because of God and Jesus. Hippies are trying to create what god made into a living hell. They are full of Demonic spirits, with members of the Grateful Dead, and The Phish have sold their soles to the devil, and spreading violence, drug abuse, unprotected sex, masturbation, and other demonic spirits world wide. What must be done to exhuast these evil spirits is absolute faith in the lord above, me must pray at least 14 times a day, we much not be subject to masturbation, molestation, drug abuse, masturbation temptation, etc.
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11:30 pm
This guy is so far gone. Its not worth arguing with idiots. They’ll just drag you down to they’re level and then beat you with experience.
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11:52 pm
i can’t even respond to this mans ignorance.
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12:12 am
I found more enjoyment reading EVERYONE bash you, than your “article”. So you can be happy that you made at least one positive feeling in your whole life happen directly. You’ll notice every single comment from hundreds of people agree that you are a serious problem. I think you’re a threat, the terrorists aren’t after us, they are after you, and I pray to god that if any life is to be lost senselessly that it is yours because you are such a horrible, child touching, evasive, slanderous prick. It’s really just asking god for natural selection to take place. Look at the approval//disapproval of every single comment, every comment you post is very negative (that means people don’t like//don’t agree with what you’re saying in case you didn’t know) and every comment saying what a fucking twit you are, has a high approval rating. You’re very egotistical, most likely from all the little boys you’ve gotten away with touching. I believe 100% you are the worst among us.
I will pray for you because I believe every human being regardless of mistakes made have a god-given right to salvation. I just want to know where in the bible it says not to smoke marijuana. Where it says to cast hate and shadow among your neighbors. Where does it say to be judgmental and closed minded.
Mr. Billings the bible is a book that we are meant to learn from, not use out of context quotes to further personal agenda. Though since you happen to continue to do so as a sort of defensive mechanism, here are some that will hopefully shut you up for good. That is, if you were a real man of faith.
Galatians 5:22
“Love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, … meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.”
Exodus 20:16
You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
Leviticus 19:16
‘Do not go about spreading slander among your people.
Psalm 34:13
Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking lies.
Psalm 37:30
The mouth of the righteous man utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks what is just. (I’ve never seen you say anything ‘wise’ just saying).
Proverbs 11: 9;13
With his mouth the godless destroys his neighbor, but through knowledge the righteous escape… A gossip betrays a confidence, but a trustworthy man keeps a secret.
Proverbs 12:6
The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.
Proverbs 20:19
A gossip betrays a confidence; so avoid a man who talks too much.
Proverbs 26:20-21
Without wood a fire goes out; without gossip a quarrel dies down. As charcoal to embers and as wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.
Matthew 12:36
But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken.
Ephesians 4:25
Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one body.
Ephesians 4:29;31
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers… Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice.
1 Peter 3:10;16
Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech
James 1:19
My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry,
James 3:5-6
The tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.
Basically the whole bible is asking you to shut the fuck up.
I’ll pray for you…
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Hot Debate, right. If you get to this after so much response, my question to you Mr. Stephenson is this;
Why do you and your fellow (extremist) Christians believe that there is only one path to God and only Christ can deliver us to Heaven? Often times this faith extends to patriotism for one’s country as well, especially the USA. Why must we feel so proud of our home country or religious faith? Why is it so hard to be OPEN MINDED! Aren’t we all brothers and sisters here on earth?
Please don’t tell me what Christ said in the bible, because you lose me right there. The bible was obviously written by mortal beings, men, and is therefore imperfect. Why base your faith on this book?
I can only imagine the mess that you see in today’s society worldwide, and I am completely in agreement that that, only from a very different point of view.
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12:34 am
We all talk about perspective like our own is correct, remember mr. billings is just on the other end of perspective, he views things differently than most of the people reading this article. His view point, though I do not agree with it is very intelligent and bold, you must respect that, It is a extremly passionate view on a small aspect of our socity, IF you readers wanna be true hippies, BE OPEN MINDED, YES, even to a “fanatic religious” view point such as this.. Knowledge can be gained everywhere if you look hard enough and hold no bias.
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Dear Max, be as it may..passionate, it lacks intelligence. Intelligence I believe comes with a manor of knowledge, Don’t go writing a whole paragraph on Phish…if you believe they are called The Phish…Passion as well can be a very dangerous thing if used the wrong way.
Also the definition of intelligence is defined as
Noun
capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity; aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, facts, meanings, etc.
Mr. Billings has not shown reasoning, understanding, the aptitude for grasping truths, facts, or much capacity for learning, yet provided me with nothing but ignorance.
Was not meant to bash you max, just as a so called “hippie” all are allowed to have an opinion..thats being human. However me being human also tells me the difference to right and wrong in general. And to give such a hateful uneducated slander to a group of people…is wrong.
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October 18, 2010 at 12:34 am
We all talk about perspective like our own is correct, remember mr. billings is just on the other end of perspective, he views things differently than most of the people reading this article. His view point, though I do not agree with it is very intelligent and bold, you must respect that, It is a extremly passionate view on a small aspect of our socity, IF you readers wanna be true hippies, BE OPEN MINDED, YES, even to a “fanatic religious” view point such as this.. Knowledge can be gained everywhere if you look hard enough and hold no bias.
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How are ya Billings? Hope all’s well. I have been a son, scholar, a hockey player, a father, brother to many, but most importantly I became a very well-educated criminal. My own choices in life took me in a direction where I was blessed to meet some of the oldest souls. I’ve done my time and I’ve read between the lines and if this sight turns out to be legitimate, I have no problem with our right to FREEDOM OF SPEECH! Your arrogance, and attitude is eventually going to catch up with you my friend. Who the F*** are you to pass judgement on anyone, or am I wrong in saying that you’re not the Almighty. I have have my scars, battle wounds ( in defense of what I hold sacred) tattoos, hair that goes between dreads then close cropped back into what I would assume by your post as a Wally Beaver style haircut. You’re getting a bit old for being a douche… Give my love to the fam and let your daughter know I’ll be swinging by around 11:00 to “go fishin’”
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P.S. You’ve a lot of nerve to quote the founding fathers of this country, which has become corrupt by the very principles in which they shed blood for. So Mr. Billings with all due respect, and I mean with all due respect. KISS MY IRISH ASS!
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I know hippies. And what you Sir describe as a “Hippie” is so very incorrect that I wonder if you have ever even truly met one? In fcat of the ones I kow, a good portion are even christian. I do not speak this from a biased pedestal as i myself have CHOSEN to not live the hippie lifestyle I appreciate but instead am a VERY adapted person into society and hold a job in which I work very closely within our government and as you would call “normal social structure”. Yet so, even more rightly so, I can say that your article is one of the most ridiculous, biased, and ignorant things I have ever read. A person shouldnt claim to know what they write about when they are so obviously ignorant to what they speak of. I, a “normal” christian part of our “clean” society, will pass your article on only to show the ignorance of what is out in this world. Think, research, and KNOW before you speak Sir. Otherwise your words hold no value but to those who you so vehemently and ignorantly speak of.
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1:46 am
Oh, and I will pray for you.
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1:59 am
This article (plus responses) is as substantial a confirmation of everything John Gray alluded to in “Straw Dogs” as anything I’ve found yet on the web.
Viva America! Viva cuspidors! Viva Pope Benedict (aka The August Carnifex of the Feral Hecatomb)!
And a hearty Viva! to You, sir.
(signed) Herb the Hippy
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2:49 am
JESUS WAS A HIPPIE!!!….I can’t tell if this article is a put-on or serious but it was entertaining! You Sir, need to spend time with REAL ‘Hippies’ at a National Rainbow Gathering. You probably would like hanging out with ‘Jesus Camp’ of course. You don’t even have to smoke any of those herbs mentioned in your sacred Bible..(‘Beware of a man of one book’-old English proverb) Really, what does following Jesus teachings have to do with consumerism & patriotism?…HA!
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4:03 am
Billings:
U.S is not a christian nation.
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4:48 am
You are most certainly wrong as numerous scholars are now revisiting the issue. For example:
http://www.wallbuilders.com/LIBissuesArticles.asp?id=8755
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4:43 am
“Hippies are predominantly white and they have used that unfairly to their political advantage. They appear at PTA meetings and town events pretending to represent normal society”
If they were another color….
A. They would not be normal society?
B. We would bomb them to Hell
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4:46 am
We could certainly deal with this situation differently, that’s for sure!
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11:47 am
If I posted this article and replaced the word “hippie” with “Christian” there would be an uproar. I like how in the comments he talks about hippy fascination with eastern trinkets and statues because everytime I go home to my “christian” family for the holidays all I see is Jesus trinkets. Open your head up and realize that the Christian army is losing it’s grip but hippies are not to blame. It’s reason and common sense that folks can see through fear based, male centric fairy tales.
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4:44 am
Apparently I am not being allowed to post the truth..
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4:49 am
You have trouble being coherent is all.
Also, you can’t put but one link in a comment. If you post more than one, they won’t appear because the system thinks it’s spam. Is that your problem Barton?
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lol @ barton…good one
No,I was trying to post a link to the NY Times article.
How long did you guys think it was going to be before most people figured it out?
As for your retraction,I contacted the Times to see if any retraction was made.There was not.
So I give you props on a good charade,whatever your name is.
It will no longer work on me..just saying this in case you decide to come back with a “you’re nuts” statement
But I will still read your articles
Have a good day Sir
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4:44 am
Thought you people might find this interesting.
Hippies Vs. Hipster Slideshow
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5:05 am
I just made this picture the backdrop for my desktop.
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3:08 pm
Hahaha!!! Oh that’s what I call a GREAT sense of humor!!! Or is that a sin, too…?
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4:48 am
Billings, if that is even your REAL name.I know you are in New York and not Tennessee.I know “tyson bowers the 3rd’s” real name is Bryan Butvidas and Kirwin Watson is the “jack gould” character.
The New york times has confirmed this with the founders of christwire..anything to say besides denials?
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4:51 am
Sorry, but that story was a hoax. It was disproven here and a retraction was issue.
http://stephensonbillings.wordpress.com/2010/10/14/354/
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I see no public retraction,which is required when major journalism business make a mistake.I will say this again..New York Times has verified this and ownership of Christwire is linked to Mr Butvidas.
You can not lie on this one whatever your name is to your readers anymore.
Disproven and retraction must be issued by NYTs and which to date has not been done.
Because you say something that you think is the truth,in this case,isn’t.
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Steve, do you know the girl in the top left pictures contact info, the one with the red dress and sexy brown locks? She is gorgeous. maybe we can chit chat about the gods of masturbation over dinner before we dance like heathens at a rock concert.
Quit hitting the anointing oil so hard, i think the holy spirit is starting to leek into your frontal lobe and its causing you some serious mental blockage. This could be the cause for the stuttering problems the people at your church are having and the random seizing convulsions i have seen people break down into.
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billings i can’t believe there are questions out there about you raping a 14 year old girl and possibly marrying here (are you in utah or something) and that parents still hire you to entertain their kids? and you say you take children on christian camping trips and you’re like 60 years old and single and blog constantly about homosexuals and how filthy everyone is and then you’re a batshit crazy religious zealot… do you see where i’m going with this? you’re like the textbook description of a serial killer, has anyone ever told you that? you picture even looks like john gacy. i mean it’s creepy. do people find you creepy when they meet you? i can’t imagine anyone wanting to leave their kids alone with you. textbook case there, billings, textbook case.
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5:15 am
If these pretty girls are what the evil lifestyle of the hippie is all about, then sign me up! And yeah, great classic pictures of the Dead and “the” Phish. They are awesome, you really haven’t enjoyed life unless you’ve let go at a concert. You’re really missing out, man.
Maybe you should come see Phish with some of us. It would be a real trip. You’re an investigative guy, just think of the great article you could get out of it! You could even smoke a jay or two and maybe drop some tabs. It would be good material for you to write about!
C’mon Steven it will be fun and I know the guys on tour will treat you well. We’re a pretty open and fun group. You could crash in a hotel room with a bunch of us and tell us stories being a Bible thumper and all the scary hippies and liberals you’ve had to fight off over the years. You in?
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“Christwire owners Bryan Butvidas and Kirwin Watson, after fielding press queries and book offers for months, have finally decided to go public. In an interview with New York, Butvidas said the site’s basic concept is to “see what Glenn Beck is talking about and then make it ten times worse.”
“We’re not trying to promote hate, we want to show how fake the world really is,” he said. “We write to see how far we can get people to believe our nonsense. People believe anything they read on the Internet.” Do readers get the joke? Just like with the media, not always. Butyidas, who usually pens columns under the name Tyson Bowers III, said some of the people who leave vituperative comments don’t get the irony. ”
So what is this,lies too “billings’..
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“Butvidas, a software designer who lives in Southern California, and Watson, who is a health service worker in Kansas, have never met in person. They became friends through the humor site Shoutwire.
“Christwire thinks anyone who isn’t a hardcore Christian conservative is a communist or secretly gay, or working for the Chinese or the Russians,” Butvidas said. “When we started, we didn’t realize that there are zealots and political sites out there who really do believe that.”
Will the hoaxes be harder to come by now that the site is receiving more public attention? Not necessarily, said Watson.
“People have these preconceived notions about how certain people are supposed to act, so if a conservative Christian has a website, there are certain things you expect to see,” he said. “No matter how many times you say it’s satire, people will still buy it.”
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5:21 am
“The site produces a tiny amount of revenue through online ads, which goes toward hosting costs. Vitriolic anti-gay stories on Christwire often carry ads for gay dating sites and Fire Island vacation rentals, thanks to Google’s irony-free algorithms.
The most prolific of the Christwire authors, “Stephenson Billings,” author of the site’s biggest hits like “Is My Husband Gay?” and “The Golden Girls: How One TV Show Turned A Generation Of American Boys Into Homosexuals,” remains stubbornly anonymous. According to a pseudonymous Facebook profile:
Mr. Stephenson Billings is a widely respected and Christian Investigative Journalist. The focus of his journalism is American society and culture inspired by his profound love of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.. A former high school football athlete, Mr. Billings also enjoys being an eBay Powerseller and a Motivational Children’s Party Entertainer (working in the Auguste method) in his hometown in Tennessee. His hobbies include antique soda bottle collecting and the piano.
Butvidas said that Billings began submitting articles via e-mail and has resisted all attempts to get him to come forward, even with potential book-deal cash as an incentive.
“We have no idea who the hell he is, or if it’s even a he,” Butvidas said. “We’re a satire site and we punk people, and here’s a guy who’s probably punking us.”
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“Contributor Marie Jon, on the other hand, is a very real person. She is a “political/religious-based writer” for RenewAmerica.com who has published numerous items on Christwire like “Obama the Marxist.” According to Butvidas, Jon sent her columns to Christwire unsolicited; she did not reply to a request for comment. She told the New York Times, which ran its own interview with the Christwire founders earlier on Friday: “I might have mistakenly contributed in the past, because I didn’t know the site, and then shrugged my shoulders because I didn’t know how popular they were.”
We should note, fondly, that the anonymous Billings is a devoted reader of New York Magazine and this website’s Sex Diaries. Or, in his words, the magazine “has thrown itself down willfully, dejected and impotent, on Gotham’s fluffy-pillowed bed of traded-fluids, begging for some hard lash of attention, blind to who is giving it as long as it penetrates their page-view projections.” In “A Disturbing Look Inside the Mind of a Sex-Addicted Homosexual Hipster,” Billings continues:
The magazine shows no shame at suckling at the teat of the worst of mediocre Bushwick-basement manufactured micro-trends. Their coverage is so unprofessionally and flamboyantly biased it truly begs the question if this rag should arrive in one’s mailbox in a brown paper bag with parental advisories stickered all over. Or better yet, serve it up over a bartop with a complimentary junior-sized condom and a Farsi-English dictionary.
Stephenson, we’re big fans of yours, too. Give us a call sometime.
Additional reporting by Mike Vilensky”
Different source billings,still want to lie about such.Hey,it’s ok dude,I perfectly understand,you don’t even tell christwire who you are let alone people on the net.I got to give you credit for keeping uo the role..
Thanks for the entertainment.
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5:23 am
Does anyone know what year those photos of the Dead and Phish are from? Is that Pigpen on the right and Brent far right?
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5:31 am
This is fucking hilarious. You really managed to put all the nutiness of the USA today in one big stew and stir it around. You have drugs and sex and rock and roll and the Tea Party racism and old fashioned fear mongering and Bible belt crazy. I can’t imagine what is pumping through that brain of yours. I hope you donate it to science. It would be an amazing thing to dissect.
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7:56 am
Amen, brother!!
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6:14 am
You’re not seriously scared by these guys are you?
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6:59 am
I dunno… I may be wrong but wasn’t Jesus a hippie too?
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Best Religious Satire website on the planet. I love it!
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8:09 am
this is pure truth being written down in your stories. preach it brother. these minions of satan and his masturbatorial ways need be brought out into the light of god our lord and savior.PHISH IS CORRUPTING OUR YOUTHS MINDS!
PRAISE JESUS BROTHERS AND SISTERS!!! PRAISE HIS HOLY NAME AND DENOUNCE STATAN AND ALL HIS TEMPTUOUS WAYS!!!!
BANIS AND WANIS!!!
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1:56 pm
If there is a God, as true Christians believe him to be, then Billing’s is going straight to hell.
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8:22 am
Interesting I am one of the people who keeps up TN’s 911 maps. That name does not appear anywhere. Either this blogger lives in his moms basement or not in TN. If you do live in my fair state please move as soon as possible. I am guessing from your proclivity for theocracy that you would like Iran pretty well.
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4:58 pm
You can’t locate Dyersburg on a map? Just go north from Memphis on 51.
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5:09 am
this comeing from the man who once defended the guy claiming alaska was beside hawaii.
i dare you find a blank world map and find USA on it. i bet you can’t.
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8:23 am
If the bible teaches us anything, it’s that a man with long hair will never do anything worth while.
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9:18 am
You are either a brilliant satirist (who uses irregardless?) or a myopic tool trapped in crippling logical fallacies.
Either way, I have never laughed so hard and sent this to others who will laugh as well.
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9:29 am
To answer your question, “Why Do Hippies Still Exist in America?” the answer is quite simple: They are a by-product of the religious fanaticism you preach.
And, well, it’s a free country. They have the freedom to do as they wish and you have the freedom to speak about something you have little knowledge about. Isn’t freedom awesome?!?!
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9:37 am
There is such a strong attempt to convince the reader that these people are actively going out and trying to convert our children to their ways…but…isn’t it the Christians that have missionaries?
America is great because we have the freedom to choose our beliefs. That is what our country is founded on.
Also, the last time a read such a hyperbolic attack against a kind of people with such a colorful brush it was written by Adolph Hitler.
I think everyone needs to be careful when you begin to speak about a group of people as if they have one single mind. NO group of people act, feel, think exactly the same. Maybe some hippies are drug swallowing perverts, but some are just people who like the casual lifestyle and enjoy jazz.
And it wasn’t Hippies who were protesting at a funeral screaming “God Hates Fags”
Look in the mirror.
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10:10 am
“irregardless” = FAIL!!!!!
Go back to elementary Billings, or whatever your name is.
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9:11 am
It’s called satire, you clod.
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10:21 am
What makes you so informed?? I happen to wear tie dye. i recycle i compost i do not litter. I do not steal, i treat others with only the out most kindness.. AND I DO NOT DO DRUGS!! so wouldn’t that make you wrong?? Not only do i work and support myself and contribute to society.. but i am also a full time student.. The way i look fits your description.. but the way i act does not. Who has the purest of virtue here? Jesus still loves me. and sir you are wrong.. and to judge! Why do you all judge so? do you think jesus is happy with all your judging?? It says in the bible that people with more wealth and comfort should reach out to those with less. We will all be judged on judgement day.
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10:52 am
Motivational Children’s Party Entertainer? That’s a little frightening! Kinda goes along with the soda bottle collection in some strange way.
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10:53 am
42 “Woe to you Pharisees, because you give God a tenth of your mint, rue and all other kinds of garden herbs, but you neglect justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without leaving the former undone. 43 “Woe to you Pharisees, because you love the most important seats in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces. 44 “Woe to you, because you are like unmarked graves, which men walk over without knowing it.”
– much love from a concerned hippie
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11:16 am
” Loathe to contribute to our domestic economy, they have long eschewed the acceptable consumerism so vital for our engines of growth despite the diversity of affordable products available to every citizen.”
This quote from the above article is only true if your god is mammon. The Bible does not promote blatant consumerism, nor does the Bible promote capitalism.
OF course The Bible also says “They will know we are Christians by our love.” Love is not evident in the above article either. Other comments have correctly identified the above article as hate speech.
Therefore we can logically conclude the article is neither Biblical nor Christian.
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11:32 am
Wow. Why am I not surprised that Propaganda still exists?
Stephenson, it is very sad you don’t know your facts. It is sad you group a few with many, but it is very typical from someone who doesn’t know and just writes what he is told.
I guess a person like you will face the creator in the end. Only then will you wake up and understand that you are mislead and confused.
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11:37 am
Notice how none of them have replied…?
And as for everyone,read my posts up above and you will know what this site really is.Nothing more than to see peoples’ reactions and not a truly chrisitan site.
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11:40 am
A major generalization if I’ve ever heard one! Mr. Author, Sir, I think you fail to realize that there are many varieties and sub classifications of “hippies”. I have been in this “hippie” scene for 12 years or so, and I have met some people that somewhat fit some of what your saying. But, most of my friends that the world would consider “hippies” are environmentally and politically conscious. Most of them are very clean and beautiful, and in fact, trendsetters of modern fashion. Most of them are very well traveled throughout the world and therefore have a good sense of culture, and spiritual/religious traditions. I myself would say that I am Christian as well, but perhaps not to the mainstream perspective, because I choose to delve deeper into the true nature of Christianity than the church. I look deeply into the mystic traditions, and the deeper mysteries that aren’t even being discussed in the mainstream. And I also honor other world religions and keep a steady meditation and yoga practice, which helps cultivate peace of mind and true happiness within. This is not a practice to get attention so I can claim to be a “zen master”. but rather to help dissolve the ego. Like I said, the “hippie” movement is a very broad spectrum of beliefs and ways of being, so to peg all “hippies” as this or that stereotype is a sweeping generalization. Not to say I haven’t known dirty smelly “hippie” kids swinging bags of weed on the street, but I’ve also known very cultured, intelligent, artistic, hard working women and men, who just aren’t going to settle for complacency and buy into the mainstream world as it is, much of it plastic and unfulfilling.
Most of them are very health conscious, and choose organic foods, because america is being poisoned with unhealthy additive laden foods.
As far as “drugs” are concerned, many of the things you mentioned are drugs. And some hippies take them and some don’t. As well as “non-hippies”, some take them and some don’t. But there are certain “drugs” that we don’t consider “drugs”, because they are not used recreationally, but are used very religiously for healing. Medicines such as peyote, mushrooms, and others have been used by indigenous cultures for ages to help heal and promote spiritual awareness. Our society has demonized them, partly because the powers-that-be saw the massive movement that was unleashed in the 60′s, which LSD had a major part in,and don’t want that happening again. In the 60′s, it seemed that the generation wasn’t quite equipped to sustain the lifestyle that was emerging. Many of the “hippies” now are much more prepared to not make the same mistakes. Our indigenous population has largely been wiped off of the face of the earth, so we are here, creating our own tribe! And it’s global! The movement is much bigger than you could imagine, but were underground. And as long as the media isn’t interested, we will remain that way. Which is fine with us. But I do think our music and fashion is becoming more widespread in the mainstream society. Anyway, my friend, I have to get going, but for now, I bid you adieu.
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Jesus was a hippie… barefoot, loving, dirty, long-haired, drinking wine, walking the earth spreading the truth about how the meek, the poor, the whore, the thief and countless others that you and your brand of Fascist Christianity profess to hate and fear, will inherit the earth and make of it a paradise that the Lord thy God shall be proud of. I’m sorry you are so afraid of love. It is sad when fear trumps love.
Sorry hate monger… but WE ARE WINNING!
XOXO
God Bless
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11:48 am
Jesus washed his feet and the feet of others. Hippies do not wash.
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12:46 pm
i like how the 4 hippie picture has a guy that looks like Jesus, this is 100% satire,thanks for the laugh-
jesus was not white, and he definitely wasn’t American, lmao
but he did promote love compassion and kindness to all…
OMG he was a freaking pacifist hippie, i think Billings’ head might implode, if were lucky his webcam’ll be on
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12:52 pm
great blog post…for me to poop on. jesus was totally a hippie. get over it.
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1:08 pm
I love the band Phish, I am agnostic, and I am a Mechanical Engineer. Can this articles author classify me please, I would be most interested in knowing what level of hippie I am.
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6:06 pm
Mr. No Brains,
It seems to me that you really have no idea. Most of the “hippies” you speak of hold normal jobs. (better then your hate artical) Herb was put here for us all to use. Its the only thing that helped my dieing father. It let/helped him eat he had died from cancer. I feel you have never been out of your bubble you have no clue what people think or feel and thats to bad. Im sure you go home and have a drink but thats ok right,why is it ok? Well all i can say is that i cant stand what you wrote. You are so wrong, i think all you are doing is trying to place fear in your bible thumpping community. More people died in name of religon than anything, drugs yet are not the best for you but its your chose ,your life and god will love you all if u belivein in something in a higher power. So buddy i love you brother BUT you are WRONG and hippies love u
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Jay, why would you attack Chards like that? That was just cruel. Wow, you people are vicious.
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your a moron. there is no such thing as god or heaven. you just rot in the ground.
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1:34 pm
An interesting read….
I want to add this was not fact checked in anyway. To say something like hippies believe in (I forgot what ridiculous religion you cited) without even listening to the music of the Grateful Dead. Live/Dead has a song that you might even sing in church.
And We Bid you Goodnight
Lay down my dear brother, lay down and take your rest,
Won’t you lay your head upon your savior’s chest,
I love you all, but Jesus loves you the best
And we bid you goodnight, goodnight, goodnight.
I would never ride, well, I would never ride (goodnight, goodnight)
But His rod and His staff, they comfort me (goodnight, goodnight)
Tell “A” for the ark, that wonderful boat (goodnight, goodnight)
Tell “B” for the beast at the ending of the wood (goodnight, goodnight)
You know it ate all the children when they wouldn’t be good,
Walking in Jerusalem just like John (goodnight, goodnight)
I go walking in the valley of the shadow of death,
And we bid you goodnight, goodnight, goodnight.
Then we have the numerous gospel songs that Jerry Garcia Band played. (Since your fact checking is horrible I will go ahead and fill you in. Jerry Garcia was one of the guitarists and singers for the Grateful Dead.)
Now on your take that they have ruined America. I believe America is a melting pot. We have people of all races and religions. Yet I can think of no other band when I think of America other than the Grateful Dead. The people that followed them, might not be conventional, but they lived for freedom. The music this band has played is pure Americana. Yes, even those long songs that make your mind wander in the unknown (once again while SOBER).
Oh yeah, I also enjoyed the way that you blamed hippies for masturbation, drugs, homosexuality,sex, etc. Marijuana comes from the earth. So this I would blame on God, not hippies. Masturbation and sex is an animal urge. These are things that happen because believe it or not we are animals. Homosexuality is in no way a new thing. (See Rome…)
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You are quite funny. A band whose name celebrates death and whose many songs revolve around drug use, a band who has lost many members to drug overdoes, whose concerts are stunning for the amount of drugs sold and abused, the number of people who have died at concerts… The number of children who run away from home and sadly get caught up in this lifestyle. The high number of heroin addicts and thieves are part of these people who “tour” or have in the past? Please do not try to sell me you false bag of goods. The Grateful Dead is the farthest thing from a decent Christian organization you can possibly conceive. They have encouraged generations– YES GENERATIONS!– to drop out, tune out and turn on– in other words, to not seek a job, to no seek a normal place in society but to instead pursue a life of highs and kicks. You can tell me all the crap you want about how much you enjoy this terrible music, but just because Garcia stole some gospel songs and turned them into his own does not mean the Grateful Dead have ANYTHING to do with Christianity and decency and morality so necessary to take this country into the next millenium.
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//You are quite funny. A band whose name celebrates death and whose many songs revolve around drug use, a band who has lost many members to drug overdoes, whose concerts are stunning for the amount of drugs sold and abused, the number of people who have died at concerts… The number of children who run away from home and sadly get caught up in this lifestyle.//
Let’s dissect this, shall we?
1. It’s their name, a name doesn’t mean much. There are bands that are named after obscure phrases or just name themselves something weird. “Grateful Dead” sticks out, they don’t ‘celebrate’ death, and even if they did, shouldn’t you be happy? Fred Phelps and his Fags tell people they should be happy God killed their child, and you’re best buds with him, right?
2. What songs of theirs revolve around drug use? What’s that? You don’t know? Then why are you talking about it?
3. The lead singer died in rehab via a heart attack, Ron died of a gastrointestinal hemorrhage, Keith died in a car accident, and Vince committed suicide. Brent was the only one who actually died of a drug overdose, and even then no one seems to know what drug he died of, so even IF I give you the point that one member passed away on drugs, that’s still only 5 out of all 13 of them; 8 are still alive. Soooo yeah, that’s bullshit.
4. Ok, I’ll admit, a shit ton of people did drugs at concerts, but you can’t blame the people who are running the concerts or the band for the actions of people, you’re trying to connect one thing to another when there’s nothing to connect.
5. You want me to pull up the numbers of people who have died or were injured or whatever at football games? Or baseball games? Or any sport for that matter? You’re precious sport has probably caused more deaths than drugs.
6. Again, you’re trying to connect two different things together that aren’t related.
//The high number of heroin addicts and thieves are part of these people who “tour” or have in the past? Please do not try to sell me you false bag of goods.//
Drugs screw people up, not bands. Gateway theories are bullshit, and assholes like you will cling to them as a desperate move (and you’re only one at that).
//The Grateful Dead is the farthest thing from a decent Christian organization you can possibly conceive.//
So a better Christian organization is one that advocates the murder of a group of people based on the fact that they want freedom and choice?
//They have encouraged generations– YES GENERATIONS!– to drop out, tune out and turn on– in other words, to not seek a job, to no seek a normal place in society but to instead pursue a life of highs and kicks.//
No one does that, you’re just trying to paint them bad because you don’t like their music. People like you will constantly make shit up like that all the damn time. If I’m wrong, prove it, show me when they’ve said with a serious and straight face that they want people to become bums and to drop out of school.
//You can tell me all the crap you want about how much you enjoy this terrible music, but just because Garcia stole some gospel songs and turned them into his own does not mean the Grateful Dead have ANYTHING to do with Christianity and decency and morality so necessary to take this country into the next millenium.//
You can tell me all the crap you want about how much you enjoy Christ and his Love, but just because you claim to be a Christian doesn’t mean jack-shit, nor does it not mean you’re one and have ANYTHING to do with Christianity and decency and morality.
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I find it fascinating Comedian that you’re such a scholar on this lifestyle… Says a lot about you.
1. As for the name of the Dead, there iconography celebrates death all over the place. If that doesn’t mean something, I do know what does.
2. There are far too many Grateful Dead Drug Songs to count, but just a few from a SIMPLE Google search:
K.C Jones
Truckin’
Box of Rain
Dark Star
Friend of the Devil
Cocaine Habit Blues
One Toke Over the Line
(Are you really trying to LIE to me about this? Come on!)
3. “All of the band had experimented with drugs for many years and, unlike many of their contemporaries, had survived. Garcia, however, was addicted to heroin by 1982. This retrospectively explained his gradual decline as a guitarist, together with his often weak and shaky vocals. Garcia eventually collapsed and came close to death when he went into a diabetic coma in July, 1986, regaining consciousness five days later.”
http://www.classicbands.com/dead.html
4. YES THERE ARE TONS OF DRUGS AT GRATEFUL DEAD & THE PHISH SHOWS!!!!!!!!!!!!
5. Don;t try to distract me by talking about football.
6. There is a rampant heroin problem among “Dead Heads”. Maybe you’re just clueless to this fact? I don’t know.
7. My point that the Grateful Dead is the farthest thing from a Christian advocacy group still holds. I think almost everyone would agree with me on this. Stop dissembling.
8. I can’t go on, you are so intensely biased, bigoted and just plumb insane I don’t know what to say anymore. You hardly make sense, you hardly have anything constructive to say. You’re mean and crude and out of control.
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//I find it fascinating Comedian that you’re such a scholar on this lifestyle… Says a lot about you.//
Yeah, it shows that I do actual research, compared to you.
//1. As for the name of the Dead, there iconography celebrates death all over the place. If that doesn’t mean something, I do know what does.//
Proper grammar never hurts Stevie. You also didn’t provide just how they ‘celebrate death’.
//2. There are far too many Grateful Dead Drug Songs to count, but just a few from a SIMPLE Google search:
K.C Jones
Truckin’
Box of Rain
Dark Star
Friend of the Devil
Cocaine Habit Blues
One Toke Over the Line//
1. it’s CASEY Jones, not K.C. Jones, you’d think that being an ‘investigative journalist’, you could tell the difference between a word and letters. 2. out of all of those songs listed, only 4 mention drugs, two are especially about them, and one of those two isn’t even by the band. A simple Google search did that.
//(Are you really trying to LIE to me about this? Come on!)//
I haven’t lied once when bashing you, I provide actual information that you’re too dumb to read or notice.
//3. “All of the band had experimented with drugs for many years and, unlike many of their contemporaries, had survived. Garcia, however, was addicted to heroin by 1982. This retrospectively explained his gradual decline as a guitarist, together with his often weak and shaky vocals. Garcia eventually collapsed and came close to death when he went into a diabetic coma in July, 1986, regaining consciousness five days later.”//
You stated, and I quote, “a band who has lost many members to drug overdoes”, and research shows that only ONE band member was lost to drug overdose, the others may have been involved with them, but your entire point was that they lost several members to drugs, when only ONE did.
http://www.classicbands.com/dead.html
//4. YES THERE ARE TONS OF DRUGS AT GRATEFUL DEAD & THE PHISH SHOWS!!!!!!!!!!!!//
Ok, point is? Does that mean that if I go and light a joint at a Church, that the Church caused me to smoke it? Is that the logic you’re going for? That the area someone’s in is what influences or causes them to do something?
//5. Don;t try to distract me by talking about football.//
“Oh god, a point! Fuck it, I’ll just ignore it” -You Stevie, after realizing that your high school wet dream has probably caused more deaths than drugs. You just don’t want to admit it.
//6. There is a rampant heroin problem among “Dead Heads”. Maybe you’re just clueless to this fact? I don’t know.//
Show me the numbers stating this. I won’t doubt that there are fans who do drugs, but until you provide actual numbers and actual facts, I refuse to believe you have any sort of point to make. Hell, that’s what all of your shit is, you hate something, and you’ll say it’s bad, but you won’t ever pull up actual numbers. What about Christians who get high because of their love for Jesus? Am I to assume that your logic should work in that case? Or is your logic only meant for you, you crazy troll?
//7. My point that the Grateful Dead is the farthest thing from a Christian advocacy group still holds. I think almost everyone would agree with me on this. Stop dissembling.//
They don’t advocate Christianity, they just have Christian members. Are members of a group advocates of their group, even if they do not announce this? Do you determine who is an advocate and who isn’t?
//8. I can’t go on, you are so intensely biased, bigoted and just plumb insane I don’t know what to say anymore. You hardly make sense, you hardly have anything constructive to say. You’re mean and crude and out of control.//
Stevie used Run Away! It wasn’t effective…
Comedian used Logic! It was super effective! Stevie fainted.
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I am sorry for the late reply, been busy moving. I enjoyed your response. Ok let us get the name “Grateful Dead” out of the way. The story for the band changing their name after they found out The Warlocks was already taken (This is to be believed that the band they found out what you and I would call ZZ Top, however Velvet Underground was also under that name as well). Then they opened up a page in a dictionary and pointed at “Grateful Dead”. Wait what is this? The term Grateful Dead was not penned by a bunch of stoned hippies?!?! So now we have a conspiracy…I would suggest you throw out your dictionary so you are not hypocritical. Yet the term is actually from the Egyptians. So now we have to damn an entire country (or as I am sure your too good to believe in Sarah Palin (does this sound like the Antichrist to anyone else?) would say continent)(oh yeah just so you know I saw we are in Sarah Palin’s America, who comes from a family who doesn’t respect the law enough to answer to a simple subpoena) to Hell because they have been around longer than Christianity. Sure they were mentioned, but let us look at the facts and dates once again. Fact checking is fundamental, especially if you plan to run a successful blog or website.
Before I go any further here, I must comment on your Sarah Palin allegiance that I saw in your Hipster blog. So she has millions of “friends” on facebook. Yet she had to resign as governor of Alaska. Think about that, she couldn’t handle the stress of Alaska and you and a million other people want her as president. What will happen when her sinful daughter has another baby out of wedlock? Or her “honest” husband makes phone calls from the Oval Office (the most important office in America no matter your belief, race or creed)?
Anyway back on to the convo. I apologize for getting off track with some easily googled Palin info.
Also you keep calling a rock band The Phish. Who is The Phish? I have seen Phish and have heard Phish. I even have an album by Fish. The Phish is not the name. (simple Google search would have helped you out on that).
I believe you were called out enough on your misinformation on the Grateful Dead. So I will move on to what you think America should be and what America’s creators thought it should be.
George Washington
Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated. I was in hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at least have reconciled Christians of every denomination so far that we should never again see the religious disputes carried to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of society. [George Washington, letter to Edward Newenham, October 20, 1792; from George Seldes, ed., The Great Quotations, Secaucus, New Jersey: Citadel Press, 1983, p. 726]
Thomas Jefferson
Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity.
-Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782
But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
-Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782
What is it men cannot be made to believe!
-Thomas Jefferson to Richard Henry Lee, April 22, 1786.
Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because if there be one he must approve of the homage of reason more than that of blindfolded fear.
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, August 10, 1787
John Adams
The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles?
– John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson, June 20, 1815
As I understand the Christian religion, it was, and is, a revelation. But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends, have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed?
– John Adams, letter to FA Van der Kamp, December 27, 1816
Benjamin Franklin
“You desire to know something of my religion. It is the first time I have been questioned upon it. But I cannot take your curiosity amiss, and shall endeavour in a few words to gratify it. Here is my creed. I believe in one God, Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by His providence. That He ought to be worshipped. That the most acceptable service we render Him is doing good to His other children. That the soul of man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this. These I take to be the fundamental principles of all sound religion, and I regard them as you do in whatever sect I meet with them.
“As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupt changes, and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity; though it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and think it needless to busy myself with it, when I expect soon an opportunity of knowing the Truth with less trouble. I see no harm, however, in its being believed, if that belief has the good consequence, as probably it has, of making his doctrines more respected and better observed; especially as I do not perceive that the Supreme takes it amiss, by distinguishing the unbelievers in His government of the world with any particular marks of His displeasure.
“I shall only add, respecting myself, that, having experienced the goodness of that Being in conducting me prosperously through a long life, I have no doubt of its continuance in the next, without the smallest conceit of meriting it… I confide that you will not expose me to criticism and censure by publishing any part of this communication to you. I have ever let others enjoy their religious sentiments, without reflecting on them for those that appeared to me unsupportable and even absurd. All sects here, and we have a great variety, have experienced my good will in assisting them with subscriptions for building their new places of worship; and, as I never opposed any of their doctrines, I hope to go out of the world in peace with them all.”
[Benjamin Franklin, letter to Ezra Stiles, President of Yale, shortly before his death; from "Benjamin Franklin" by Carl Van Doren, the October, 1938 Viking Press edition pages 777-778 Also see Alice J. Hall, "Philosopher of Dissent: Benj. Franklin," National Geographic, Vol. 148, No. 1, July, 1975, p. 94]
As you can clearly read and cannot dispute our founding fathers. America’s founding fathers. The same people that stood up and said hey Queen of England no more!!!! The same people that gave you and me the right to squander on such insignificant details. The same people that revolted against an army and country and were the underdogs. The same people that won a war. The same people that won just not any war but the American Revolution could be the same people disagreeing with you and your blog.
So now we are at yet another crossroads in American History. We have the Tea Party. Thinly disguised as revolutionaries and people for the country. These people that you support are as bad as the hippies and hipsters and Lady Gaga that you have written about. However, I believe the Tea Party is made up of aging hippies. The same people that protested the Vietnam conflict. (That is right it is not a war!!!) The same people that smoked pot and burned draft cards. The same women that burned bras. They are now holding signs once again with younger generations of Americans to stop whatever it is they are angry about at the moment. Sorry to go back to this, but Sarah Palin is now in the Tea Party. Is she a hippie? Sure the Tea Party was created by a 20 something year old. However, even he isn’t happy with what has become of it. So let us all stop and think. Perhaps we can even agree here. Yes hippies have ruined America. However, it wasn’t with drugs, masturbation, sex, homosexuality but with open thoughts. Let us all thank our forefathers for such a right, such a freedom. Let us thank our forefathers for looking at different religions [see Thomas Jefferson and Quaron (Why is Quaron misspelled on this site?)]. Let us thank our 16th president who would pay by his own life for freedom and end to the war between the states. Let us thank John F Kennedy who saw things in a different light and he too had to die. Let us thank Martin Luther King. A Christian minister who I am sure would not object to books in the Bible as you have in your earlier comments. Let us thank Robert Kennedy who also sought change yet paid for this by his life. Do you see a pattern here? America was and still is founded on many different ideas and beliefs. Yet for some reason I read your blogs and see blindness. I see hate. Is this what Jesus would do? I think Jesus would have been one of these evil hippies that you are so scared of.(Isn’t this what brought him to the cross?)
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You need to be concise if you want to be taken seriously. All your rambling and the quotes? That was just witless lunacy! And it really doesn’t matter how the Grateful Dead selected their name, that doesn’t change the fact they did indeed select it and use death iconography in their propaganda, showing a close association with the occult. When you add the heroin/cocaine addiction of their band members, you get a nasty concoction. And for your failed attempted to grasp the meaning of America to me, I just want to direct you to my other news artilce– “Let Us Now Protect This Nation” (right hand side, there’s a link). That should give you a clear sense of my ideology on the subject instead of repeating myself. Good luck on your educational journey my friend.
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Of note: irregardless isn’t a word. Just thought you should know. THANKS!
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It’s a vernacular word. You just don’t understand.
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Can you even define vernacular? It means native language you retard.
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You ignorance is only matched by your arrogance.
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You already used that phrase on someone else and you fucked up then, apparently looking words up in a dictionary is too much of a task for you to handle.
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No, you’re wrong. No wiggle room on this one, bitch. “Irregardless” is not a word. If it was, it would mean “without regard without”, a double negative. It cancels its own meaning. It makes no sense. That’s why the words that make sense are correct, and the ones that don’t just make you sound like a dumbfuck hillbillie and detract from your credibility. There’s no “vernacular” about it, you are simply incapable admitting you were wrong.
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All the people in those pictures look happy to me? Wheres the issue?
As much as I wasnt going to comment on your article, I thought it necesary to point one inconsistency out.
“…it contains very few discernable lyrics and enjoyable beats. Rather, it is like an improvised jazz solo with the lowest quality acoustical instruments pumped through a sound system purchased at a toy store.”
Owsley Stanley, one of the founders of your so called ‘hippy movement’ invented the modern PA system that ALL live music now uses. Check your facts. I would really love to see your sources.
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Are you normally so rude? I find it hard to respond to people who act so incredibly arrogant. My facts are solid and you are a fool.
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“I’m right, you’re wrong, nahnahnahnah!”
-Stevie’s logic as to why he’s right. Just because he said.
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what a beautiful world it would be without this religion thing
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Wait, I’m a little confused here. Are you saying that Jesus WASN’T a hippie? I mean, he was “ragged, longhaired” and “prowling the … landscape”, of Nazereth, of course. Plus, he communed with nature, preached love, and didn’t have a job. And he was a rabble rouser, speaking up for those that the government didn’t treat fairly. I agree, he didn’t smoke pot, but he sure drank wine. And, though it seems hard to believe since he was Jewish, and from the Middle East, according to most churches I’ve visited, it seems that he was definitely Anglo. I guess he didn’t have a Pitbull or dreadlocks (clear signs of Hippiedom), or so we’re told…
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Jesus was not a “hippie.” That is an incredibly insulting thing to say. He did not spend his days smoking reefer and sleeping in vans. He did not go around trying to bum his way into concerts and looking for free LSD trips. He did not act out the incredibly hypocritical life of the bottom feeding hippie, happy to scrounge off the goods of a productive and patriotic economy, while secreting traveling the country for loose women and public parks to sleep in. If you knew anything of the Bible, ANYTHING AT ALL, you would know Jesus could not have condoned your dangerous lifestyle.
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5:51 pm
//Jesus was not a “hippie.”//
Yeah he was. All about peace and love, didn’t have a wealthy job, and never did harm. Sounds like a hippie.
//That is an incredibly insulting thing to say.//
No, what’s incredibly insulting is to say you’re a Christian when you believe that hatred is what Jesus was all about.
//He did not spend his days smoking reefer and sleeping in vans. He did not go around trying to bum his way into concerts and looking for free LSD trips.//
You’re giving a description of a stereotypical Hippie, are we to believe that stereotypes are nothing but the truth and thus all Christians are crazy bastards such as yourself who shouldn’t be taken seriously at all, even the genuine good ones?
//He did not act out the incredibly hypocritical life of the bottom feeding hippie, happy to scrounge off the goods of a productive and patriotic economy, while secreting traveling the country for loose women and public parks to sleep in.//
You’re confusing hippie with bum. Just like you confuse Christian with Terrorist.
//If you knew anything of the Bible, ANYTHING AT ALL, you would know Jesus could not have condoned your dangerous lifestyle.//
Jesus wouldn’t have liked it, yet he wouldn’t have done anything to the man. You’re also one to talk about knowing anything about the Bible, you claim people misinterpret Matthew, and yet you insist your version is right for no reason, you follow only whatever you want to follow, and you think you have no sins. Sorry buddy, that’s not what the Bible is about at all.
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Just WHICH Bible were you reading sir? Actually, Jesus DID do all of those things, well, except for sleeping in vans, and possibly, but not definitely didn’t smoke reefer. Although his Father did create the plant, so he might just as well smoked it. Hashish is pretty popular in the Mid-East.
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JESUS ABSOLUTELY DID NOT DO DRUGS!!! I CAN’T BELIEVE WE’RE HONESTLY HAVE THIS INSIPID DISCUSSION!!!!!!
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You don’t really know that. There’s no evidence one way or the other.
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Are you mentally disabled?
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Sir,
I’m sorry to say so but you are a prejudiced bigot. By repeating outdated stereotypes you merely show how profoundly ignorant you are about the counterculture and a movement which, in essence and at its core (I agree a lot of people simply jumped on the wagon to have fun), was about bringing about Peace on Earth and loving your neighbour, in the way Jesus would have done.
As for the free love, you can say what you want about that lifestyle, but it surely doesn’t
hurt anybody when it involves consenting adults!
I am also a Christian and if I may say, I feel really embarrassed after reading your article. Since you are so adamant on quoting the Bible, here are some quotes for you sir:
Matthew 7:1
“Do not judge, or you too will be judged.”
7:2
“For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”
Luke 6:37
“Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.”
Psalm 7:8
“Let the LORD judge the peoples. Judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, according to my integrity, O Most High.”
Finally I would suggest taking a look at myself in the mirror and working on becoming a better person everyday, more Christ-like and closer to God, rather than pointing fingers, self-righteousness and has never made the world a better place and that is not about to change!
God bless x
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“I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. (1) But WATCH THOU in all things, (2) ENDURE AFFLICTIONS, (3) DO THE WORK OF AN EVANGELIST, (4) MAKE FULL PROOF OF THY MINISTRY. For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith; Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day; and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.” –2 Timothy 4:1-8.
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@Billings
Selective quotation? Very convenient sir.
I’m still not sure how your passage justifies judging. Here’s some more from 2 Timothy which perhaps you missed?
2 Timothy 2:14-15
“Continue teaching these things, warning people in God’s presence not to argue about words. It does not help anyone, and it ruins those who listen.
Make every effort to give yourself to God as the kind of person he will approve. Be a worker who is not ashamed and who uses the true teaching in the right way.
Stay away from foolish, useless talk, because that will lead people further away from God.”
2 Timothy 2:19-20
“But God’s strong foundation continues to stand. These words are written on the seal: “The Lord knows those who belong to him,”[a] and “Everyone who wants to belong to the Lord must stop doing wrong.”
“In a large house there are not only things made of gold and silver, but also things made of wood and clay. Some things are used for special purposes, and others are made for ordinary jobs. All who make themselves clean from evil will be used for special purposes. They will be made holy, useful to the Master, ready to do any good work.”
2 Timothy 2:23-25
“Stay away from foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they grow into quarrels.”
(AND HERE IS THE PART THAT WILL BE MOST USEFUL TO YOU SIR)
“And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but must be kind to everyone, a good teacher, and patient. The Lord’s servant must gently teach those who disagree. Then maybe God will let them change their minds so they can accept the truth.”
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@Billings
Selective quotation? Very convenient sir.
I’m still not sure how your passage justifies judging. Here’s some more from 2 Timothy which perhaps you missed?
2 Timothy 2:14-15
“Continue teaching these things, warning people in God’s presence not to argue about words. It does not help anyone, and it ruins those who listen.
Make every effort to give yourself to God as the kind of person he will approve. Be a worker who is not ashamed and who uses the true teaching in the right way.
Stay away from foolish, useless talk, because that will lead people further away from God.”
2 Timothy 2:19-20
“But God’s strong foundation continues to stand. These words are written on the seal: “The Lord knows those who belong to him,”[a] and “Everyone who wants to belong to the Lord must stop doing wrong.”
“In a large house there are not only things made of gold and silver, but also things made of wood and clay. Some things are used for special purposes, and others are made for ordinary jobs. All who make themselves clean from evil will be used for special purposes. They will be made holy, useful to the Master, ready to do any good work.”
2 Timothy 2:23-25
“Stay away from foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they grow into quarrels.”
(AND HERE IS THE PART THAT WILL BE MOST USEFUL TO YOU SIR)
“And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but must be kind to everyone, a good teacher, and patient. The Lord’s servant must gently teach those who disagree. Then maybe God will let them change their minds so they can accept the truth.”
God bless x
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Billings….this is I, your GOD! Here ME now for you have ignored MY messenger.
The leaves that blow in the wind are of ME and are MINE alone. The waters you use to wash down your pills are ME and are MINE alone. You are MY image and MY image has many faces. MY image is the reflection in the water drop…flipped upside down and is not of what you see, for it is MINE.
Why is it that you speak of ME like this? Have I done not what I said I would do? Have I not created everything you would need? Have I not given you a reason to love? Have I not given you every option to find MY faith? Have you lost your way, and if so, why have you no faith in the light when you see only the dark of MY day?
You are of ME, so I will not call you sick, for I know no disease. You are MY image so I will not tell you how you look, for I see MY beauty everywhere. You are MY pulse, so I will not tell you the heart I created for you does not beat, for it pounds with MY love for all. You are MY son, so I will not tell you you are of another kind, for you are ME and I am ALL.
Can you hear ME Billings? When I call to you who are lost, do you recognize MY voice?
Was it not ME who lead you here? Was it not ME who gave you every opportunity to know ME? Is it not ME you call to? Is it not ME you say protects you? Why is it you put meanings to MY words?
MY voice is that of your needs. MY voice is your shelter. MY voice is the filling of your belly. MY voice is the utterance of all your companions, friend or foe. MY voice is everywhere and is the ONLY voice that is heard. My voice is the hearts of all living and dead. My voice sings all songs. My child, I am calling to you. I am asking you these important questions…not that you do not know, for I know, and you are of ME, but for you to once again see MY plan in MY image, not of your own.
Ask yourself this….why would I speak to you online? Why would I not send you a messenger?
Well, MY son, I have sent a messenger. I have billions of them screaming for you to join them in MY heaven. Do not get lost in the words of MY messengers, join them in the action of MY love.
Billings, this is your GOD, here ME now.
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5:22 pm
It saddens me that you so readily take the Lord’s name in vain. Whoever you are, you think this is funny? Do I amuse you?
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You sin in the name of the Lord, I’m sure compared to that, taking His name in vain is a much better option.
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If it saddens you, then Hells yeah, I’m amused. I hope you cry tonight!
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DIG THIS. Man, I just wanna say marijuana is not deadly. I mean it could be if you smoked like 100 joints in little less than an hour. But one or two joints every couple of days aint gonna do nothing. Drugs like alcohol and tobacco are much more harmful than weed. Two. Hippies arent pedafiles. They don’t have sex with teenagers. Three. I’m 15. I’m a hippie. Get Used to it. Stop being jerks. Four. Theres nothing wrong with being gay man. I’m straight but I have gay friends. And besides you think your god appreciates you thinking bad of people who only want to really express love and freedom. I think not. I think you are the wrong ones.
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BOOOOOOOO!
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.. i dont know much about the bible or so i care but i thought thou shall not judge lest ye be judged or something like that ..you are a hypocrite and are as ugly as ass dude .. .. jesus loves the grateful dead
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5:22 pm
You clearly do not know the Bible.
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You randomly quote the Bible just because you can’t answer or refute any points made against your character, you’re just a fucking coward.
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from the magazine New York:
The Guys Behind Christwire, Creating Parody From ‘Glenn Beck on Steroids’
* 9/3/10 at 5:32 PM
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In the world of Christwire, the Glenn Beck rally made Martin Luther King Jr. proud, Hurricane Earl is headed toward the Gay East Coast to reap God’s vengeance, and the recent increase in pet-on-pet rape is a pernicious consequences of same-sex marriage.
This is, of course, satire: Completely over-the-top, but mimicking some extreme religious-right talking points so well that several mainstream news sites have been hoaxed. In a competitive and superheated news climate, a religious site calling for a boycott of Bill Murray, “murderer of lambs,” was, for NBC Los Angeles, too good to not be true. The advice column “Is My Husband Gay?” (Does he “travel frequently to big cities or Asia”?) was, as the Atlantic Wire’s John Hudson discovered, taken at face value by the Huffington Post.
Christwire owners Bryan Butvidas and Kirwin Watson, after fielding press queries and book offers for months, have finally decided to go public. In an interview with New York, Butvidas said the site’s basic concept is to “see what Glenn Beck is talking about and then make it ten times worse.”
“We’re not trying to promote hate, we want to show how fake the world really is,” he said. “We write to see how far we can get people to believe our nonsense. People believe anything they read on the Internet.” Do readers get the joke? Just like with the media, not always. Butyidas, who usually pens columns under the name Tyson Bowers III, said some of the people who leave vituperative comments don’t get the irony.
Butvidas, a software designer who lives in Southern California, and Watson, who is a health service worker in Kansas, have never met in person. They became friends through the humor site Shoutwire.
“Christwire thinks anyone who isn’t a hardcore Christian conservative is a communist or secretly gay, or working for the Chinese or the Russians,” Butvidas said. “When we started, we didn’t realize that there are zealots and political sites out there who really do believe that.”
Will the hoaxes be harder to come by now that the site is receiving more public attention? Not necessarily, said Watson.
“People have these preconceived notions about how certain people are supposed to act, so if a conservative Christian has a website, there are certain things you expect to see,” he said. “No matter how many times you say it’s satire, people will still buy it.”
The site produces a tiny amount of revenue through online ads, which goes toward hosting costs. Vitriolic anti-gay stories on Christwire often carry ads for gay dating sites and Fire Island vacation rentals, thanks to Google’s irony-free algorithms.
The most prolific of the Christwire authors, “Stephenson Billings,” author of the site’s biggest hits like “Is My Husband Gay?” and “The Golden Girls: How One TV Show Turned A Generation Of American Boys Into Homosexuals,” remains stubbornly anonymous. According to a pseudonymous Facebook profile:
Mr. Stephenson Billings is a widely respected and Christian Investigative Journalist. The focus of his journalism is American society and culture inspired by his profound love of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.. A former high school football athlete, Mr. Billings also enjoys being an eBay Powerseller and a Motivational Children’s Party Entertainer (working in the Auguste method) in his hometown in Tennessee. His hobbies include antique soda bottle collecting and the piano.
Butvidas said that Billings began submitting articles via e-mail and has resisted all attempts to get him to come forward, even with potential book-deal cash as an incentive.
“We have no idea who the hell he is, or if it’s even a he,” Butvidas said. “We’re a satire site and we punk people, and here’s a guy who’s probably punking us.”
Contributor Marie Jon, on the other hand, is a very real person. She is a “political/religious-based writer” for RenewAmerica.com who has published numerous items on Christwire like “Obama the Marxist.” According to Butvidas, Jon sent her columns to Christwire unsolicited; she did not reply to a request for comment. She told the New York Times, which ran its own interview with the Christwire founders earlier on Friday: “I might have mistakenly contributed in the past, because I didn’t know the site, and then shrugged my shoulders because I didn’t know how popular they were.”
We should note, fondly, that the anonymous Billings is a devoted reader of New York Magazine and this website’s Sex Diaries. Or, in his words, the magazine “has thrown itself down willfully, dejected and impotent, on Gotham’s fluffy-pillowed bed of traded-fluids, begging for some hard lash of attention, blind to who is giving it as long as it penetrates their page-view projections.” In “A Disturbing Look Inside the Mind of a Sex-Addicted Homosexual Hipster,” Billings continues:
The magazine shows no shame at suckling at the teat of the worst of mediocre Bushwick-basement manufactured micro-trends. Their coverage is so unprofessionally and flamboyantly biased it truly begs the question if this rag should arrive in one’s mailbox in a brown paper bag with parental advisories stickered all over. Or better yet, serve it up over a bartop with a complimentary junior-sized condom and a Farsi-English dictionary.
Stephenson, we’re big fans of yours, too. Give us a call sometime.
Additional reporting by Mike Vilensky
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5:24 pm
That story was a prank by two guys in California. A retraction was issued. CW issued this response:
http://stephensonbillings.wordpress.com/2010/10/14/354/
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////”That story was a prank by two guys in California. A retraction was issued. CW issued this response:
http://stephensonbillings.wordpress.com/2010/10/14/354/”
You wrote this… doesn’t prove anything.
BTW, I’m pretty sure everyone finds NY Times a “LITTLE” more reliable than your terribly construed idealolgies and propaganda.
CW is TOTALLY satire folks… I just don’t think Stephen(Stephenson is not your real name according to CW’s admin, so I will NOT call u as such, if you can make a name for your self so can I, “WRONG”) understands this site is satirical. I think he has drowned in his false beliefs and become blind to the truth.
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4:51 pm
The downright ignorance of this article make me laugh harder than I’ve laughed in a long time. Thank you Mr. Billings. I needed that.
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The downright ignorance of this article made me laugh harder than I’ve laughed in a long time. Thank you Mr. Billings. I needed that.
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That read was awesomely hilarious!
Is Stephenson Billings a real person? Was this a serious article? I could have sworn it was written by a jokester pretending to be a real person looking for some laughs.
It seems like the author spent too much time cut off from the real world, writing these things in a basement with no windows from information he sees in antique scare tactic pamphlets and on the 700 club.
Realize that hippies / hipsters / christians / what-have-you come in all shapes and colors, personalities and preferences. If you go outside and talk to a real live person, you may learn a bit about the reality behind things that scare you.
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You’re just a bigot who uses any excuse to knock gay people (which is not a lifestyle choice) and people who actually get laid. Shut up.
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5:11 pm
Hilarious! This article is a joke right?
Well in any case, I found it on the Wharf Rats listser (that’s right, some hippies stop using drugs, or never start at all). I seriousiosly hope it is a joke and there isn’t a group of close minded Bible bangers running around hating on my lifestyle. This article has more misinformation than truth and totally contracticts the Christian values of love and tolerance. It’s really sad if such people exist. I really feel for their children.
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I agree with everything Steven says. God did not create hippies, the devil did. Bunch of masturbating drug addicted spooks.
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Dude is obviously in the closet, which is ok, but the hate is all a cover like it has been for so many other so called evangelicals. Thing was a laugh out loud read though and entertained me for a good 15 minutes. Scary to think these hate mongers are out there though.
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5:56 pm
Jesus or Santa.. you tell me which one is likely to show up first.
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6:39 pm
with each post, this idiot’s ego gets bigger and bigger. jesus h christ on a wire!
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7:03 pm
Are you this bored with your life that you have to post this garbage? Dont you have anything better to do with your time? Like pray for world peace and for God to open your mind so you can be accepting of others no matter how they dress, talk, smell, and look?
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7:38 pm
Hey Stephenson, the 1950′s called…they want their ridiculous opinions about patriotism and morality back. Have you noticed that most of the people who have visited do not agree with you? That’s because most of the WORLD disagrees with you. You are the one who is denying every positive cultural change from the past 50 years. You are a relic, and I can’t wait for a time when your ilk had faded, so it can be supplanted by people who know the true meaning of love and of tolerance. For now, we’ll just laugh at you.
FYI – the reason so many people are reading your blog is because it’s comical. You’re a joke, and that joke is at your expense. Hahaha.
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Judgemental, hateful, spiteful, intolerant, and truly ignorant and seemingly scared of a different outlook and culture. These don’t sound like the teachings of Jesus to me. In fact, Jesus promoted socialism, opposed violence, and preached acceptance of everyone.
Perhaps you don’t even realize you’re off the path. Worry less about what others do, and more about yourself. Are you promoting the teachings of Jesus, or parroting the message of those who would twist it for their own gain? You are not a tool of God, you are just a tool.
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8:23 pm
OMG… I think I’m a hippy!! What is going to happen to me now?? LOL
Truth is if we all were more like “hippies” this would be a much better world…Lovin you (even if you are a puppet idiot)
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8:27 pm
Uhhh is this person typing on a computer? Do they understand that the microchip in that computer was invented by a total stoner? how about apple computers? how about everyone who stands a chance of changing this ignorant world you’re trying to raise more bigots in…
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8:51 pm
All I want to know is…. who is the brunette with the red paisley???
Ooh la la!!!
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9:01 pm
After reading this ridiculous article, I decided to rip my clothes off dance around naked while listening to “The” Phish while smokind the deadly Marijuana plant. After I woke up from my purple haze I decided to masturbate then sell drugs to the school children. You sir are an idiot!
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Mr. Billings, sir, that very well may have been one of the most irrevocably disrespectful pieces of “journalism” I have ever had the displeasure of reading. As a person claiming a strong Christian faith, your unbridled hatemongering patronizes the religion you are supposed to represent. Mighty smiter, when I read this extreme, radically ultra right wing piece of propoganda, I realized that you know nothing about love for humankind…another foundation upon which Christianity is supposed to be built. I suggest you turn this power of perception on yourself and your own faith and see what clever observations arise. I read other comments related to this article, and it appears as though you have been overwhelmingly outnumbered by those who do not appreciate the content of what was written.
It appears as though you opened a mighty can of worms with this self-absorbed, arrogant, misguided and farcically inaccurate account of this group of people that provide a different perspective on how life should be lived. I’m not saying that their way is always the right way, but, based on what I read today, your way most certainly is not either.
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9:14 pm
This is one of the most ridiculous, outdated, un-informed articles I’ve ever come across. The “raw, masculine, progressive (??)politics of Reagan” ???? So, you don’t approve of one-half our population, women?
There’s so much in your unfortunate article that is totally unChristian I don’t have time to address it all. Hippies basically espouse Love and Peace, the same message given by the Christ.
I suppose you’re a Tea Party-ier? You’re certainly not a true Christian, sir, just a badly misguided, hypnotised by the mass-media, Fox News machine. Why don’t you stay home, keep your mouth shut, go within, and contact Jesus?
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9:17 pm
So, anybody with long hair, a puppy or two and holding flowers is an evil hippie?
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10:44 pm
“Sexual liberation leading to multiple partners, orgies, homosexuality, lesbianism, voyeurism, teen sex and chemically-fueled perversion are all part of their plan. ”
Hahaha, hippies have a plan??? REALLY!?
and you really going to just negatively talk about their exploration of self while you post most non threatening images of what you think hippies are? I wish the christ freaks would stop thinking that the way they see is the way it should be. if you found your god, good for you, let them find theirs.
booooo this article, i really didnt know people were this ignorant, its 2010 for fuck sakes.
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10:57 pm
In the days the Bible was written it was expected of girls to have teen sex, I mean that is when they were married. That is also when the body is most fertile.
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11:01 pm
First off I read the whole article, I thought I should tell you that since you keep
telling people they didn’t.
a hippie is someone that does not conform to the conventional standards and
customs of society. Hippies come with many different beliefs, looks, and lifestyles.
You’ve grouped them all into your definition.
I’m a hippie, I’m also a christian who reads the Bible and Ive seen a lot of christian
hippies, I am respectful of those who do not believe the same as me so long as they
are not hurtful. Ive never seen a hippie going around preaching hate against
christians, I have seen some of other religions or atheist speak thier opinions but it
wasnt any different then how anyone else of another religion would and they were
not preaching hate and intolerance the way you just did.
“Loathe to contribute to our domestic economy, they have long eschewed the
acceptable consumerism so vital for our engines of growth despite the diversity of
affordable products available to every citizen.”
“Both males and females adorn themselves with colorful, cheap jewelry and avoid
precious metals like gold or diamonds.”
Hebrews 13:5
Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have,
because God has said,
Never will I leave you;
never will I forsake you.
Luke 16:19-26
19″There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in
luxury every day. 20At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores
21and longing to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and
licked his sores.
22″The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham’s
side. The rich man also died and was buried. 23In hell,[c] where he was in torment,
he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. 24So he called to
him, ‘Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger
in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.’
25″But Abraham replied, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your
good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and
you are in agony. 26And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has
been fixed, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone
cross over from there to us.’
Mark 6:8
These were his instructions: “Take nothing for the journey except a staff—no bread,
no bag, no money in your belts. 9Wear sandals but not an extra tunic. 10Whenever
you enter a house, stay there until you leave that town. 11And if any place will not
welcome you or listen to you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave, as a
testimony against them.”
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11:18 pm
Some of this I found amusing, but I can’t help but feel that it’s all very jaded and one sided. I think to really sound like you know (for-a-fact) where it’s coming from you need to cite sources. How do you “know” that hipsters carry more STDS or have wealthier backgrounds. There are plenty of people that are hippies that have rich parents and gas guzzling SUVs. See what I’m saying. And yah, most of this crud in here can apply to human beings. Judge not least ye be judged. So yah, cite sources.
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11:37 pm
I try to live very inexpensively including often buying used clothes and I hope to become mostly self sufficient, growing, hunting and fishing the majority of or at least half of my own food in Alaska where I was raised. I also know a bit about harvesting wild food and have used that skill to supplement my diet. This is all hard work by the way. Are you really judging me for that? for not supporting the economy by not buying everything I need? and do you think God is displeased by me wearing used clothes?
And you know what? when Jesus was hungry did he go work for a bank? (which is what would support the economy) No, he fished. So do you really think to live an inexpensive life is wrong in gods eyes?
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11:47 pm
Let me tell you about the type of hippie I am since you did not know there were
different kinds of hippies.
As established I am into alternative life styles, something more self sufficient, natural, and inexpensive. I also travel a lot and live a semi nomadic life style. Therewere times I lived in a tent as a minimalist and I had to carry everything in a pack on my back. But Jesus also was nomadic and a minimalist. Im into alternative medicine like using ginger to treat motion sickness, it has been proven just as effective as pills but without the side effects. I do art like painting which I sell and weaving hemp jewelry (an easy way to make a little money and so much fun). I do believe in making easy money but also I believe in hard work, like chopping fire wood and gardening. I do other work when its needed. Im going to college in jan for massage therapy which means I’ll be studying a LOT about how the human body works and all the muscles and about skin diseases which will be good because I like science and physiology. I dont trust politics but look what politics did to Jesus.
A lot of my music is far from mainstreem (ethnic sounding stuff) but what dose that have to do with anything? like why did you even bring music up? along with all the other irrelevant stuff you complained about.
Oh and I dont wear dreadlocks though I dont care if others do
As a hippie do I really sound that scary to you? lol rarrrr from a 24 year old girl XD
All this falls under the definition of hippie yet Im not like what you call hippie in your article.
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11:48 pm
I was at a local town gathering, and there was this group of kids hanging around. My daughter Sarah and I just love the vanilla coke milkshakes from this little deli type place run by very nice Christian folks, who happen to go to our local church. So Sarah and I stop outside to enjoy our milkshakes on a wonderful summer day. Anyway, there was this group of kids outside ‘hanging out’, all with baggy clothes, big fasionable scribbly shirts, etc. My daughter says..”daddy, those kids are cool”.
Everything was fine until we started overhearing their conversation. THEY were talking about blowjobs, sex, marijuana, sneaking out of the house, and heavens more. The final straw was when they started talking about a particular night where they were at a party where a kid got so drunk he threw up in his parents master bedroom. Can you imagine??? I looked at my daughter, and said, “Sarah, lets GO.” Little tiger was mad at first, but after some ice scream cones(yes! after the milkshakes lol lol lol.I get the cup, 2 scoops:Pyummy) everything was smooth sailing. We both have cravings for sweet dairy products. But anyway, for anyone out there with a little daughter, really watch out for these kids, and what your child might hear. We were out to dinner one night, and these little skateboarders kid called the other one a BUTTFUCK%R! Sorry for the profanity, but it MUST BE SAID! I’m sick of it! My life was so horrible because my parents didn’t let me out of the house! but now I see why they did! These ‘hippies’ are the devil. I’m on lexapro, paxil, zoloft, and valium, and I’m happier then I could ever be. Why anyone would need marijuana when they could be Legally prescribed to any SSRI or Benzaodiazapam is beyond me.
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we’ve been had. it’s satire. I’m embarrassed and at the same time incredibly impressed. Good show guys.
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huh … baggy pants ?? becxause hippie doesnt actually wears baggy pants
Just saying
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12:03 am
While I find this article incredibly insensitive and offensive, everyone responding is just fueling the hatred “these people” have towards us. And by us I mean “hippies”, Deadheads, and Phish fans. While I agree with a lot of what your saying, there is no way this “article”/Blog was written with any research and based on absolutely no merrit. So just chill out. Leave the extremeist to himself. He judges us but thats fine, we shouldn’t judge him. We are doing exactly what he wants us to do. The majority of people in our society do not view us this way. Most probably have no interaction or idea we exist. Thats fine. Let “these people” cast their stones at everyone from hippies to homosexuals. In the end it doesn’t matter. People like this live off of scaring others into believing things that aren’t true so they can get away with horrific things. I’ll leave by posting a quote that sums up this entire post…
“It is a first-class human tragedy that peoples of the earth who claim to believe in the message of Jesus, whom they describe as the Prince of Peace, show little of that belief in actual practice.”- Gandhi
Peace Everyone (you too Billings)
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Jhon all those drugs you listed have side effects that suck and cannabis is legal medication. Benzaos are more addictive.
and you can not lump every one into the same group. how do you know they were hippies? its not a fashion statement!
its like me saying country people are bad because they drink beer all day, inbreed, wast their time watching football witch is violent, get dirty, and dont get good education, and if I see someone wearing country boots that does one of thees things in front of me it will just confirm country people are bad.
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12:16 am
What a hateful, overreaching and stereotyping article. How dare you generalize so. This is why young people are so turned off to Christianity these days. I am a “hippie” AND a believer. This article saddened me and made me feel bad. Christianity is NOT supposed to do that. Jesus does not care what you look like, wear, or how long your hair is. Epic FAIL.
I have never seen such a narrow-minded, scary and evil blog. It is like the McCarthy years all over again. Why must all Christians look like Ward Cleaver? God made us all individuals. The language most of the writers on this site use, is like something from Puritan days. This is crazy, weird, extreme, bunker- mentality “evangelism.” I thought it was a joke at first. You need to ask yourselves just what your motivation is. Divisive and negative is what it says to me. The arrogance is appalling! I HOPE you actually find Jesus in your heart before you do further damage. You want specifics of what parts of this article I find offensive? How about the entire thing! For shame!
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12:27 am
I can wait to smoke a big fat joint with dreadlocked Jesus in heaven one day.
…..you have a hot seat waiting for you in hell Billings! Later!
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12:45 am
Dear Mr. Billings,
I am an example of the person you would consider an “idiotic, vile, drug-addled” hippie. Not only is this article ridiculous Christian propaganda, it is completely and utterly FALSE. As I was reading through it (with nausea, nonetheless), all I could see was ignorant hatred on your part.
I want to start off by saying this: your “god” (yes, I realize I did not capitalize the word god) does not exist. Jesus may have lived 2000 years ago, but he was not the son of god. He was a normal person, who did nothing but give to others and help them when needed. I am sure if he were alive today, this article would make him sick, as it has to me. You, and people like you (i.e. Glenn Beck) are the ones who are turning our society into a shithole (pardon my French). It is not the modern day hippies. Hippies have the tendency to spread love and peace throughout communities, unlike you hate-mongering conservative assholes. Isn’t that what Jesus taught? Love, peace, helping your fellow man… not degrading them to look like the monsters they AREN’T. I bet if you sent a group of hippies to work out international peace plans, it would work much better than what the Republicans have tried to do, which is honestly nothing but spewing awful statements about people who are not the same as them. It is people like you that make us want to buy foreign, not domestic. I love my country, but I do not want to support this police state that it is turning into.
“…they have clogged countless courts with their endless attempts to derail our democracy of moral decency.” This statement is just ridiculous. Derail our democracy of moral decency? Do you honestly think that this article you’ve written promotes moral decency? If you do, I am sad for you. You obviously have not even an inkling of what moral decency actually means. (If you need a reminder, read my previous paragraph.)
“…they represent the antithesis of Constitutional Americanism.” Correct me if I’m wrong (actually don’t, because I know I’m not), but it seems to me that the conservatives have no idea what the Constitution actually means. You all use this document to back up points you have tried to make, but they are all hysterically wrong. It seems to me that the conservatives are the antithesis of Constitutional Americanism.
Vile, bestial acts? I can honestly say I have not participated in any of those examples, other than multiple partners, but unless you have unrealistic views of the “no sex before marriage” ideal, this is a normal thing for the majority of Americans. Don’t try to make it as if it’s abnormal, or wrong. Unless you really are this naive (and I suspect you are), you know it is the truth. As for the other examples of “vile acts”: to each his own. I don’t try to convince you to stop being a completely idiotic douchebag, why should you try to tell other people how to live their lives? (This also applies towards gay marriage; divorce is ruining the concept of marriage more than same-sex marriages ever could.)
“They have no compunction against teaching our young to rebel and to hate, to despise Christian teachings and to avoid the responsibility we all have towards our Creator.” Rebel and hate? What was that I said about promoting love and peace? I’m sorry, I must be stoned. *sarcasm* I don’t know a single “hippie” that promotes hate. And do you know who our REAL creator is? The universe. Not some guy with a beard sitting on a throne in the clouds. We are made of the same atoms as the stars, the planets, the trees, the grass, etc… oh, but you don’t believe in proven science, do you? Have you seen “The Men Who Stare at Goats”? I suggest you listen to Jeff Daniels’ character’s mantra.
“They take great pride in spreading their foul disease to young and old alike…” Foul disease? What foul disease? Do you mean AIDS? Herpes? Chlamydia? Because those diseases (along with all others) are not limited to the hippie community, and I’m certain that none of the hippies I know want to spread any disease to anyone. This is one of the dumbest statements in the whole article.
Your list of drugs that you presume hippies do is ridiculous. Heroin? Ice? Meth? (Which is the same as ice — I bet you’re going to take this opportunity to say that I know the difference because I’ve done it. Well, you could not be further from the truth… but I guess I should know that by now, after reading this piece of shit propaganda.) And what the hell is nexus? I also don’t know anyone who enjoys GHB. Most people who ingest GHB have probably been date raped, as it IS the date rape drug. This is more common on some college campuses or bars, rather than at a hippie festival.
Public nudity… now, while I admit there are quite a few people out there that I would not like to see naked, what’s the problem with it? We came into this world naked. Why are you conservatives so ashamed of what “god” gave you? This is hypocrisy at its finest. Adam and Eve were supposedly nude — we all know that by the laws of gravity, those leaves covering up their “shame” did not stay where they were intended to stay.
“…stealing water from public hydrants and luring school kids into all night drug parties.” People steal water from public hydrants? I have never seen this. I don’t even know how it’s possible unless you have a firefighter nearby. And how can you “steal” water? As for luring school kids into all night drug parties… this is completely false. If any school kids partake in an “all night drug party”, it is by their own choice. Hippies do not pressure anybody to do anything that they may not want to do. They have respect for others and others’ wants and needs.
As for the marijuana… do you not realize the benefits this plant has? Our forefathers, while forming this country (which, despite popular belief, was NOT founded on Christianity) grew this plant, smoked it, and used it to make hemp for multiple uses. Have you ever had a terrible day, and all you want to do is come home and relax? What do most people do? They reach for a beer. Or a cocktail. Or SOME sort of alcohol. This is by far more dangerous than anything pot could ever do to you, on all sorts of levels. For those of us who enjoy relaxing and smoking a bowl, we do not pose any danger to any others, or even ourselves. Then there’s the medicinal benefits, from using it for treating cancer (THC cells actually reduce the number of cancer cells, this has been proven) to helping those with depression or anxiety. If you cannot see the wonderful aspects of marijuana, you are blind. But again, this would not come as a surprise to me.
“True faith frightens them beyond belief…” This is just retarded. Yes, you have driven me to use the word “retarded”. That is all I have to say about that.
“…their range of performers is quite limited…” Umm, you obviously have not met any hippies… this article proves it. Do you know how many bands “hippies” actually listen to? More than I can name. Sure, The Dead and Phish are probably on their lists, but they are certainly not limited to the two. Either way, drugs are not needed to enjoy this music. It is good on its own. This is just another example of your utter stupidity.
“Young people tempted into this illicit world rarely return unharmed. Entering into these events, one is assaulted by sexual and psychedelic demands that push you into naked frenzies and hours-long blackouts.” Every person I have ever encountered at a “hippie” show does come out unharmed. Naked frenzies and blackouts? You have obviously never been to a “hippie” show. I have never witnessed any of this. Also, I did not realize that Phish shows, LSD, and masturbation went hand-in-hand. The only time I’ve ever seen a person masturbate is in *gasp* pornography (OH NOOO!!) or with a man I’m dating. (Oh and hey, did you know that masturbation is a COMPLETELY NORMAL HUMAN FUNCTION and also reduces the risk of prostate cancer. I’m guessing you’re high on the list for prostate cancer… oh, one can only hope.) You, sir, are a fucking ignoramus.
“…it’s not uncommon for them to awake in odd circumstances…” This sounds more like an alcoholic than a hippie. I remember more on pot or LSD than I do after a night of drinking. (And this is legal?!?!)
“…they pose a threat to the beauty and humanity of the Christian faith in America today.” And Christians like you threaten the beauty and humanity of the entire world. Not all Christians are bad people, but I can tell you are not one of them. Speaking of, I know quite a few Christian hippies, and they are actually very beautiful people, and they STILL manage to represent the hippie lifestyle.
I tried to be as nice as possible in this message, but you make it quite a challenge, Mr. Billings. You are a complete idiot who is lost in his own world of conservative propaganda. It is pretty pathetic.
I bid you good day.
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PS: I quite thoroughly enjoyed checking out your Facebook profile. Prussian Blue, eh? White supremacist much? And Jersey shore? REALLY? You are a 52 year old man. Not to mention single. I can understand why. Or are you just still in the closet like so many other conservative assholes? I see you are also friends with Vince Herman. You DO realize Great American Taxi is adored by many a hippie, right? Ta ta!
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How can hippies be practice magick and worship gods and goddesses if they have no “true faith” (by the way, Pagans don’t “worship” any deity)?
Why is “Jesus Camp” one of the more well-known and more populated areas at Rainbow Gatherings… this is for the Christian hippies.
Hippies either support Constitutionalism, or support no government at all. Therefore they do NOT support anit-constutionalism (like Christians do, by wanting things such as gay marriage banned and hemp outlawed). However, the majority of Constitutionaliosts (such as the pepple who protest tyranny and lies about 9/11) are not hippies.
Hippies abhor drugs such as alcohol, meth, crack, etc., and do not allow it in their camps.
…Then again for someone who beliefve you have to take a “blood oath” in order to be a part of a particular lifestyale which has no organizations, ranks, rules, OR OATHS to actually be correct in their outrageous opinon piece is a ridiculous expectation.
HEY LOOK EVERYONE… Westboro Baptist Church redux!
And yes, hippies do masturbate… so does everyone on the entire planet, including the author of this article. lol.
And this sentence…
“There are far more homosexuals in the hipster demographic, for the hippie does not enjoy expensive hair products and tight clothing.”
…just makes me wonder if you are writing in a language very similar to English, which is not actually English, that I do not understand and am therefore attributing the wrong meanings to your words… because, if this was in English, what does liking expensive hair products and/or tight clothing have to do with being homosexual? lol.
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if you knew anything you wouldn’t be here preaching normality
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1:42 am
Anyone notice this guys a “Motivational Children’s Party Entertainer”? Sounds creepy as hell.
And that shit at the bottom? It says praise or condemn. This site is so fucked.
Sir, your article clearly shows that you have a biased and misunderstood view of contemporary youth culture in America. I could go line by line, breaking apart fallacies and locating numerous inconsistencies, but I will not, as it would be a waste of time; so just some advice instead. Stop hiding behind your myths and go outside a little. See a concert, talk to someone.
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2:08 am
we’ve been had. it’s satire. I’m embarrassed and at the same time incredibly impressed. Good show guys.
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3:07 am
have you read anything on the rest of the site?
of course it’s real you idiot.
jesus loves the little children, all the children of the worrrrrld (except for kids that are on welfare and of color and gay and were nearly aborted and hate Jesus because they never learned about Him).
red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in his sight, Jesus loves (some of) all the children of the world.
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2:42 am
a better question is this: WHY DO CHRISTIANS STILL EXIST IN AMERICA?
Christians are stupid.
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Billings, you motorboatin son of a bitch, you old sailor you!
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We love you Governor Palin!
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8:20 pm
Stevie, are you sure you’re sane? We already know you’re bat shit insane, but you gotta stop lyin’ to yourself man.
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How many times have you jerked it to that picture, Stevie?
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6:08 am
I’ve never read anything that is so hate mongering before in my life. I am disgusted with you, Billings, that you had the audacity to even print this drivel.
Marijuana is not deadly. In fact, nobody ever has, nor ever can die of an overdose. It is a relaxant, makes you giggle often, which is sadly needed in this terrible world full of war nowadays.
You have no facts and only conjecture. Nothing is backed up by scientific proof. The fact is that marijuana is peaceful, it creates a peaceful environment without war, fear or hate mongering.
And Jesus was the ultimate hippie…PERIOD.
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5:30 pm
You challenge my “audacity”? Are you normally such a conceited, arrogant, pissy person? Wow, you are shockingly obtuse. What a shame. Jesus was not a “hippie”. Please you know nothing of the Bible. Jesus did not go around smoking joints and sleeping on friend’s couches, he did not encourage people to stop bathing and save up all his money (made from drug deals) so that he could go to some terrible music concert and hit on teenage girls. You are incredibly, incredibly wrong. It makes me sick to my stomach.
And what of God? Have you no clue what the Old and New Testaments command of us? You have only the crudest sense of what TRUE Christian faith means, picked up in parking lots and hasty deals like some nasty bag of your favorite skunk drug.
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12:03 pm
“You challenge my “audacity”? Are you normally such a conceited, arrogant, pissy person? Wow, you are shockingly obtuse. What a shame.”
WOW! Ask yourself that same question! Holy Shit! I have never come across someone like you, unbelievable! I’m glad you live in your little, backwards town in Tennessee. I hope you don’t leave your cave!
Jesus would be very disappointed and ashamed of you calling yourself a Christian!
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1:24 am
“Jesus did not go around smoking joints and sleeping on friend’s couches, he did not encourage people to stop bathing and save up all his money (made from drug deals) so that he could go to some terrible music concert and hit on teenage girls.”
Preach on Stevie…
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6:29 am
Is this real or a satire? Is it the insane rantings of the far religous right? Has anyone been able to determine for sure one way or the other? Even his FB page seems to be a bit tongue in cheek — “eBay Powerseller and a Motivational Children’s Party Entertainer (working in the Auguste method) in his hometown in Tennessee. His hobbies include antique soda bottle collecting and the piano.” I dunno – I vote in favor of a joke
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5:31 pm
I take my work very seriously. What’s with the bigotry?
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7:57 am
The only thing more hypocritical than a hippie is Christian. They both are full of it.
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8:09 am
I am not in any way shape or form a “hippie” as you describe. I am a follower of Jesus Christ and love him with all of my heart.
That being said – this article does not represent what most Christians believe. It’s hateful, hypocritical, and downright and embarrassing to think this person relates himself to Christianity.
On behalf of 99% of the rest of the world – which includes all walks of faiths and non-faiths – I apologize to you hippies on behalf of “Christians” and applaud your love, acceptance and open-mindedness to all things.
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11:08 am
THANKYOU, i do not myself relate to christianity, but many of my family and friends do, and i agree that this type of behavior is highly embarrassing! i am ashamed that people associate this type of fanaticism with my country, and my family’s faith. who i have seen so far in my path to mostly be accepting of hippies, as it is, our country would not be what it is today without hippies.
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5:33 pm
Are you really reposting this comment? Should I repost my response where I inform you that you are simply out of touch with the Evangelical movement in America today? Are you really so needy to be so self-righteous or did you just miss my reply, Madame 99%.
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12:08 pm
Are you normally such a conceited, arrogant, pissy person? What a shame.
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8:27 am
aaaaahahahahahahahahahahah!
Get a grip. Socialism, Nudism, Drugs and protest are all good things.
Seems very much to me like you’re the one full of hate Mr.Author.
Oh and I’m dying to know what cultural changes hippies have denied?
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I am much happier being a hippie than whatever this author thinks he is
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That’s no moon…
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This is literally one of the most pathetic rants i have ever heard. Let me start of first by saying your whole religion is based paganism, which very commonly practiced “orgys”. Everything you believe in is false and a sanctuary built on fear of dying and standing on your own(hints why you are so deffensive that “I’m not alone, in fact I’m part of a very large community” and “My journalism follows closely the work of Dr James Dobson”)you are a hypocritical moron. I challenge you to give me one single piece of factual information proving anything at all about your religion.
The bible is scientifically false. You believe in a man parting the seas and cities in the sky but not fossils and tangible evidence.
You say hippies are druggies? You have never used a perscription drug(which are cocaine and opiate based)? You have never drank alchohol? Thought so.
You think hippies are bad because they are not the norm but neither are you evangelical or christian. I know YOU dont think we should become muslim because they are probably the enemy, just a wild guess.
You cant make a coherant arguement instead you quote bible verses. It is truely pathetic and i am sorry for you. Just a wild guess but you grew up white upper class republican? You have attended church since a small child? You don’t actually know any hippies?
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5:35 pm
I saw the DaVinci code too you know. That theory that early Christianity was organized around orgies is just a fiction. Sad that you would buy into a Dan Brown paperback fantasy so easily. Did you also believe Mother Goose?
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8:11 pm
“Sad that you would buy into a Dan Brown paperback fantasy so easily.”
And what, pray, makes the bible soooooo much more plausible?
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12:01 am
So WHO can’t tell the difference between fantasy and reality? Are you seriously suggesting that a Dan Brown book is a work of theories and non-fiction? Really? Please tell me you’re joking, you can’t honestly expect ANYTHING to come from Dan Brown to actually have ANY kind of merit. He’s just slightly more reliable than you.
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9:40 am
i wouldnt worry about this guy too much everybody. he’s obviously completely insane.
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10:21 am
What a coincidence?! really funny actually. i was masterbating and listening to phish as i was reading this article!
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10:36 am
The author has no idea what he is talking about…WHAT A DOUCHE BAG…
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10:40 am
Billings is a DOUCHE BAG……HATER….Come to my town so i can show you the way…
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10:56 am
this is the MOST ridiculous post i have seen on the internet in a very VERY long time… fuck he-said-she-said christians vrs hippies vrs whatever… what ever happened to just being HUMAN? and loving your brother or sister HUMAN not brother or sister christian, or brother or sister hippie… jesus christ (ha) but THIS bullshit is i swear to god is going to be the end of our nation, and then end of the world. get back to your roots people, your HUMAN roots.
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11:02 am
Since you saw fit to correct someone’s grammar mistake (your vs you’re) I really do need to point out to the Illustrious Author that “irregardless” is not a word. That is a double negative. Regardless of what you think, some “hippies” are quite educated and intelligent.
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5:37 pm
“Irregardless originated in dialectal American speech in the early 20th century. Its fairly widespread use in speech called it to the attention of usage commentators as early as 1927. The most frequently repeated remark about it is that “there is no such word.” There is such a word, however. It is still used primarily in speech, although it can be found from time to time in edited prose.” –The Merriam Webster Dictionary.
Try not to be such an arrogant jerk about things, okay?
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1:30 am
you convienetly forgot the last part : ” Its reputation has not risen over the years, and it is still a long way from general acceptance. Use regardless instead”
see even your source says to fucking use regardless instead.
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11:34 am
You are an ignorant person. I generally like the hard drug taking hippies but many are farmers.
The bible is bullshit anyways for the most part. You ignorant Christian self-righteous fuck.
The bible was television for the old times. Make sense?
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11:36 am
er, change that to don’t like the hard drug taking hippies.
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11:47 am
Dude!!! You should write for Stephen Colbert, this shit is hilarious, funniest site I have come across in years, the satire is brilliant, brilliant I say!!!
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12:11 pm
oh man, i am so high right now.
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12:58 pm
“Intergeneration erotic encounter in some disused graveyard?!” Are you insane? It is wholly impossible that you have any proof for such ridiculous allegations. You have an opinion that drug use and anti-Evangelical points of view are wrong, and that’s fine. You’re entitled to your opinion. It’s irresponsible and cruel, however, for you to propagate such slander. You’re defining a hippie as somebody who uses drugs until they die, regardless of health issues and pleas from children? That is the definition of a DRUG ADDICT, which is not synonymous with “hippie.” A hippie is somebody who rejects mainstream lifestyle, in favor of liberal lifestyles and politics. They advocate peace, love and equality. They certainly favor equal rights for homosexuals (and by the way, being a “hippie” has no effect on your sexual preferences… once again, are you insane?). I loathe the Cafeteria Christianity adopted by the religious right in terms of homosexuality. Leviticus 25:44 states that I may possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from neighboring nations. Does this mean that I can own Canadian slaves? Exodus 21:7 sanctions the sale of my daughter to slavery – should I do this, too? Lev. 11:6-8 says that touching the skin of a dead pig makes you unclean. Have you ever held a football, and if so, what do you plan to do about it? Why project hate to God’s creatures the way that you do? Have you forgotten what Jesus was trying to accomplish? He has been crucified again by ignorant, hateful people like you. Judge not lest ye be judged, for with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
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5:39 pm
You really want me to go around graveyards sniffing for sex parties? Pervert.
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8:08 pm
“You really want me to go around graveyards sniffing for sex parties? Pervert.”
Well, you seem to think it’s just fine and dandy for parents to sniff their sons bedsheets for semen…
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jesus was the original hippy. this article is the perfect example of everything wrong with christianity. no tolerance, judgmental and hateful. if there is a god and jesus is his son etc… if he comes back more than likely he’ll be hanging with the hippies protesting things like war, famine etc… pretty much lke hippies do today. the hardest part of all this is trying to understand why christians like billings can’t see this. as for the “american” stance hippies are more american than anything. they’re main priority and focus is freedom. our forefathers in a sense were hippies protesting the oppression by the english monarchs. billings you’re an idiot. lets debate any topic and i’ll hand you your ass
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5:42 pm
“Jesus was a hippy”… Do you realize, David, how impressively original you are with that statement? It has only been said about three hundred times already in this message section. Maybe you’re just a bit too stoned on drugs to realize it. This is what happens with people whose brains are turned to mush by marijuana. They repeat themselves incessantly. I’m sick of tell you nutjobs that you’re insulting and wrong with this claim. Read above for my response.
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“As a group, they are the chief proponents of public nudism in this country”
I think the answer you’re looking for is nudists.
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1:36 pm
We’ve ALL been punked ROYALLY! This website is hilarious. I posted before that we are getting punked and it did not show up. Maybe they don’t want anyone to know. It did my heart good, though, to see that most folks will not tolerate this type of fringe thinking. That is a relief and has made me extremely (get it?) happy! Hippies rule! Vote Democrat! We ain’t perfect, but sure beat hell out of the alternative. VOTE in November, please! Or, this type of article will be for REAL….
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2:24 pm
this article is absolutely rediculous. you obviously were a very sheltered person and never tried to expand your mind or opinions on anything. i laughed reading most of the things you said, they make no sense. you should never write anything ever again, you’ll just prove yourself to be even more dumb than i thought.
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4:40 pm
Do not write about things you clearly know nothing about.
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5:58 pm
Right back at you!
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4:52 pm
This is the funniest piece of satire I have read in a very long time.
If it is not satire then it is written by a poor soul that sounds like they know very little about Jesus and just believe whatever other people tell them.
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5:16 pm
Those dirty heathen hippie chicks give me a boner. Am I going to hell?
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5:29 pm
I am what you would be considering as a hippie, I have the long, dreaded hair, I make tie dyes, I listen to the Grateful Dead, go to these “hippie gatherings.” You really need to further investigate something that you want to write about. There are some people out there who like some of the lifestyle choices that the hippies partake in, such as drug use and music, but they don’t follow the beliefs of what true hippies believe in. Peace, love, and understanding. That should really be something that everyone should agree on, no matter what your religion is. But instead you choose to sit and bash on a group of people who don’t conform to your beliefs. On top of my falling into your hippie group, I also am a mother who self supports my children without any state aid, I attend school, I have an English degree and am working on a Biology degree, I have a job, which I have held for 4 years, working in an office. Oh, and the major thing, I don’t do any drugs. I have in my day done some, but I choose to do things with my life other than that. I really think that this world would be a better place if people like you didn’t go around and try to make everyone believe in what you do, or else be ridiculed and loathed by the likes of you. By the your own beliefs: “You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.” Romans 2:1 May you find your inner peace, so that others may remain in theirs.
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8:08 pm
God bless, my friend!
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GREAT Response, hypocrite!
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6:40 pm
“these anti-societal, marijuana-loving civil liberation types…”
Gosh darnit, why would they want civil liberties!? Jesus wouldn’t want that!
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6:42 pm
Why do the people that write these inds of articles still exist?
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6:53 pm
The Grand Peking Order:
Phish
Cool Ranch Doritos
Jesus
God
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6:54 pm
Have yet to read a favorable comment about this article so here are a few:
Great job with your Hippie stereotyping.
Love your creative use of the non-word “irregardless”.
“Facts” stated in this article were very polarizing…there’s you, and then there’s EVERYONE else disagreeing with you. Way to get everyone on board.
I am a Christian. You make me laugh!
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7:59 pm
I have received numerous letters and phone calls of support but most people seem truly terrified and intimidated by the rabble that has crashed this site with their hate and foul fumes. You people all need to be hosed down. I can smell you and your funny “cigarettes” from here.
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1:25 am
they were never here. i have read back to the orginal posts and even back then nobody agreed with you.
but also what is it that they are so afraid of ? that we’ll vote their comment down? that we won’t like them? that we’ll say mean things about their moms? please. if there’s so many of them they are the ones who would drown us. if there truely is such a large group out there too scared to post then they deserve not to be heard.
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7:09 pm
Uhhh… Umm… Well… So I’m not even going to say you name because I think you glow in your pants when you hear your name. Furthermore, I think you are miserably failing at building your own following instead of looking out for my children’s well-being.
There is a point here so stay with me. I was born, raised, and baptized in the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) with no choice of my own. At my age 13 My mother started going to the Baptist church and still does today, my father is an ordained priest in the Mormon church and they are still married. So for the sake of conversation, I am a preacher’s son. I bounced back and forth every other Sunday until age 18 when I made my first move because as long as I was under their roof, I was in church every sunday morning. I’m similar to Lt. Dan on Forrest Gump, I’ve had ancestors fight in every single American war starting with the Native Americans which were my ancestors as well (although you
would see me as white) which is only a mentality like “hippie” or “Christian” and all between, this page has
many parallels with that time, Some guy trying to convince everyone that the natives were “evil” because
they were clearly happy people. White man has been bitter since way back when they moved to the shade
and became pale. I hate to burst your bubble but your Adam & Eve were black and as people moved from that geographical region our skin got lighter. Moving on, I enlisted in the army on September 12th 2001 after waking up the day before and blazing a half-burnt blunt from the night of the 10th. I violently cried as I watched those people die having never been to New York or giving a good shit what happened there. Almost through with boot camp, the army sent us home for ” Christmas Exodus” during which I ended up with a headful of that sweet LSD in Atlanta ( which is the only thing that can help you now my dimwit friend) and like an old movie reel spinning out of control until it locks into one frame, all the sudden I saw through everything from me about to go overseas and kill another human for the Bush administration when nothing about it felt right like that headful of fluff I spoke of, all the way down to the Christian girl I
was in love with getting punched by some other guy’s dickfist while i was away. To bring this scattered seemingly irrelevant nonsense to a close, I love my parents dearly even though in my OPINION they are misled and somewhat brainwashed by people who’s caliber of ignorance is far less than yours but I think it’s great that they have something they believe in so much. I’m the furthest thing from a Christian, the bible is a good ole book but not for me to live my life by because I do what I want at any moment. I don’t push my beliefs on them as they continue to batter me with the
”good book”. Everyone will find their own way except for you, you’re not even looking, you’re standing at
an intersection and shouting as I pass you by. My mother almost died when I showed her this shit. My
father was just relieved to see you say you were baptist so he could laugh and act as if he never read this.
They have finally accepted what I do for a living, which includes me being a part of some of the most high-energy and most conscious parties in a different town every night. So we can live in harmony as
long as you have even minimal respect for your fellow man. Or just shut your hole. I am a
fucking “hippie” by your standards and like it or not I am your brother on this earth. If you don’t like it, then do 6 billion people a favor and kill
yourself…. And of course, may peace be with you
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8:01 pm
Mormonism IS NOT CHRISTIANITY!
I have written about that terrible cult before:
Do Mormons Think They’re Better Than Christians?
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9:17 pm
Your OPINION. Kill yourself. Oh and I fucked your mom. Out.
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Mr. Billings,
I see one of 2 possibilities here, either you are a very angry and hateful individual with a severe superiority complex, or you are completely out of touch with reality. Or more likely, both are true. Tactful or not, many people have clearly voiced their objections to your views and you have responded by saying that they don’t understand your point. Let me help you out a bit, it is you who does not understand. Until you live amongst “hippies” for a while, you have no right to pass judgment upon them. I do not count myself among the hippie crowd, but I have had several friends in my time that did. Though I may not fully understand a person’s motivation to live that lifestyle, I certainly can attest to the fact that they are all polite, kind, generous, peace loving people. If I were to cite a single unifying characteristic that defines the hippies that I know, “peace loving” would be it. I cannot say the same for you or other people with your bigoted, holier-than-thou beliefs. Your article is merely a call to arms asking other individuals with similar prejudices to condemn their peaceful lifestyle. I’m very pleased with the response that you have received and hope that you are learning something.
Most of the “hippies” that I know do indeed smoke marijuana, however to suggest that pot is a dangerous street drug simply illustrates how incredibly out of touch with reality that you are. Marijuana is a naturally occurring plant. If there is a God, I have no doubt that she kindly created the Marijuana plant as a gift to us as proof that she wants us to be happy. You sir, could use a little yourself.
I recommend that you re-read your own article and every time you see the word “hippie”, replace it with the word “nigger” and then you may begin to understand how the more enlightened individuals interpret your words.
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8:05 pm
The marijuana sold by thugs and criminals today is not a “naturally occuring plant”!!! It is a highly synthesized potent drug that wreaks havoc on the brain. Let me ask you pot tokers an honest question: Have you ever felt completely wacko bonkers when you got high? OF COURSE YOU HAVE! THIS IS WHY WE CALL IT DRUG ABUSE! YOU PEOPLE SHOULD ALL BE IN JAIL AND SOME DAY, PRAISE GOD, PEOPLE LIKE SARAH PALIN WILL MAKE THIS YOUR REALITY.
TRIP ON THAT YOUR TRIPPIES!
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9:00 pm
I genuinely feel sorry for you. You and Sara Palin are foolish and misguided. In one breath you claim that you are righteous Christians and in the next you attack peaceful Americans who simply live a lifestyle that you do not understand. You are attacking the very principals of freedom that our country was founded upon. Just because you feel passionately about something does not make you right. You, like Sara Palin, are in dire need of education.
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9:20 pm
Governor Palin is a hero to many and you truly disrespect her with such comments.
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9:27 pm
“Governor Palin is a hero to many and you truly disrespect her with such comments.”
And yet it’s perfectly fine to spew sexist biblical quotes about women, such as women being silent in church, being subservient to their husbands, not having control over their own reproductive systems, etc?
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10:10 pm
Didn’t Palin abandoned her position as Governor and thus not illegible to run for Presidency? Not only that, you’re all nothing but hypocrites, saying you’re trying to do good when you’re nothing but a bunch of terrorists who are lead by fear and use fear to change the way things are to your liking.
You don’t do one iota of actual research, and you have the audacity to claim that various experts are wrong in their field of study simply because of a ‘political bias’ that you think they have, because you’re retarded mind thinks that you’re right because you said so.
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10:48 pm
“Who is the more foolish, the fool, or the fool who follows [her]” – Obi Wan Kenobi
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11:04 pm
I figured it out! This is a KKK website, isn’t it? That makes total sense! BTW, the KKK sucks donkey balls.
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7:15 am
Marijuna is a herb with quite a lot of medicinal uses that due to a corrupt government was made illegal so the liquor industry could have total control of peoples need to escape reality. Which would you prefer a drunk husband who continually beats his wife and kids in name of religion or a pot head that promotes a peaceful co existence with all man kind.
I have had more then one Police officer tell us they never are called to a domestic abuse situation where marijuana is involved. It is always liquor or hard drugs or presciption drugs that create the problem.
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8:03 am
I’m surprised you didn’t throw William Randolf Hearst, Joe Kennedy and Pablo Escobar into your little conspiracy stew. Oh, you people have such tired, tired paranoias.
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9:52 am
“Oh, you people have such tired, tired paranoias.”
Wow, this coming from the man who thinks that Betty White is out to turn straight men gay, that cat ownership is corrupting America, and that hippies are a threat.
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now I know your joking
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8:26 pm
Mr Billings, I am so happy that every day I get to teach our young people how to love one another and share with each other. I don’t beleive in your ‘god’ or your spewing of hatred towards people who are different from you. I will continue to piss you off by teaching my liberal agenda to all 430 students I have the fortune of teaching. I have taught many of their familes and parents through the past 20 years and am happy to tell you I have Jesus-freaks, aethiests, pagans, and hippes amongst my graduates and they all have responded to my teachings as wonderful and enlightening. All of these people have a balanced view of the world that will soon make yours illegitmate. Keep spewing your hate and I will keep extingusihing it with my so-called evil eduactional methods of love, tolerance, equity and understanding.
I suggest you let your so-called god do the judging, if he is really there…and you need to make sure your fly is zipped up and stop looking at little boys the way you always do.
Now please do us all a favor and place a gun (I’m sure you have many) in your mouth and pull the trigger.
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8:40 pm
Would you be so rude and presumptuous to Dr. James Dobson the the Rev. Dr. Pat Robertson?
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8:45 pm
“Would you be so rude and presumptuous to Dr. James Dobson the the Rev. Dr. Pat Robertson?”
I certainly would.
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9:29 pm
Hmm… could kicking them both in the nuts as hard as I possibly could be construed as rude and presumptuous?
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10:20 pm
I use to suck penis for marijuana till I found the lord.
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12:10 am
“The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.” –Psalm 23.
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12:12 am
I thought this was a joke when I first started reading, but quickly realized I was greatly mistaken. This “article” is the biggest load of idiocy I have ever read. Talk about narrow mindedness. YOU are the reason that “hippies” steer clear of the main stream. How about you pick a better subject next time you feel like ranting about things you clearly have NO IDEA about like hmm i dont know maybe the pathetic parents raising their children to be celebrity consumed and tech obsessed little brats only concerned about the coolest fads and trends MTV has brainwashed them into liking. Our world is doomed if THEY ever get elected into office. The problem with you and people that think like you is that you don’t think for yourselves. You have no personality, no real likes or dislikes (except of course things that are different that you are afraid of) and no soul because you will never dig deep enough and always be TOO AFRAID to find out who you really are. I’ll take my Dead Headed and Phish loving hippies any day of the week because guess what “dude” we’re never going away. If everyone took a note from the “hippies” this world would be a better place. It’s not all about drugs and sex and MASTURBATION you fracking idiot it’s about love and friendship and MUSIC SWEEEET MUSIC. It’s about experiences and the pursuit of happiness. I feel sorry for you that you will never know what it is like to experience life or know the pursuit of happiness because you will always be too busy analyzing other peoples lives because they are different than yours. You are a sad sad person and I am glad that I will never be standing next to you at my next music festival, although it would be a hilarious sight. See ya on the other side!
PEACE AND LOVE, a loved and happy PHISH phan
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8:01 am
You think I have no personality? That’s a strange thing to say. And your hostility surprises me. Do you always barge into every situation in such an arrogant, angry style? How awfully sad for you, young man.
“All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.” –Saint Thomas Aquinas.
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12:18 am
This is brilliant! Comedy gold!
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by the way just read up in the comments somewhere you calling someone ELSE ignorant. Really? This article has ignorant all over it. You are an ignorant man. And just so you know, ya know, incase you haven’t realized it in your oh so Christian lifestyle, God doesn’t hate and is all about love so why if you claim you are so religious to you insist on hating on others? And didn’t you ever read anywhere that “ONLY GOD CAN JUDGE”? Worry about yourself and stop worrying about how others live their LOVING PLENTIFUL AND HAPPY LIVES. Continue on your journey to nothingness you pathetic excuse for a “spiritual” man.
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12:47 am
“Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law–a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household. Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and anyone who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.” –Matthew 10:34-39.
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see but we don’t want jesus. he sound like quite the selfish bastard anyway.
i would rather love the people i know are around me than a slefish god that might be somewhere.
fuck god he’s a selfish douche.
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7:58 am
That’s a very harsh thing to say but you’re young and maybe when you’re a little more mature you may see the importance of your soul and the joy of giving your life over the Christ. I continue to pray for you my boy, there is plenty of love in Christianity, but there is also much work and responsibility. You need to adhere to the teachings very closely, but it will bring purity to your heart.
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9:49 am
Billings, we are NEVER going to accept Jesus as our “savior”! Why can’t you get this through your thick, ugly head? Stop trying to act as though you know more about us than we do, stop trying to act as though you know what our thought processes are. When we say NO, we mean NO!
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1:00 am
I think this says it all: http://www.ourcivilisation.com/cooray/vilify/socialis.htm
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7:06 am
Well if I remember correctly wasn’t Jesus a Hippie. Long hair etc…..
It is time to realize this country is being taken over by Judeo Christians.
I thought the country foundation was to keep Church and State Seperate.
The world would be a better place if all religions were taken away and we lived in this world as one people trying to make life the best we can.
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7:44 am
Are you really so stoned you have missed the million other people who have made this incredibly stupid comment here?
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9:10 am
What do you even say to this kind of ignorance?
Christianity is an embarrassment to humanity.
This is vindication.
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9:21 am
Yes–must admit ALL those folks in the photos, look pretty scary! You have an excellent command of the English language, why do you use it in such an obscene-[to me], manner? Are you really scared?
Cheers
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10:15 am
This is shear ignorance, the true Christ would love all forms of life and appreciate and accept the role it plays. This is not an article, it is hate mail. If this is a “Hippie” -”They are against every tradition that has made this country great and have nothing to offer in a constructive or positive sense. They want to tear our world apart so that they may dance in the shadow of our crumbling faith. And in that darkness, hidden away from common sense and ethical living, they engage in the most vile, bestial acts. Sexual liberation leading to multiple partners, orgies, homosexuality, lesbianism, voyeurism, teen sex and chemically-fueled perversion are all part of their plan”-(Stephen Billings…Then I am not a Hippie, But If writing and reading pure negativity about people is Christian than I am definitely not Christian…. Your article probably lost more Christians than it recruited. Hippies still exist to show the world that we can live, and would grow to much higher and more devine states of life without people like you!
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4:22 pm
I’m sorry but you’re simply unaware of the larger truths around you, young man. There is so much life out there to live, why don’t you embrace it? Did you know that Jesus Christ died for YOUR sins? How do you plan to repay that incredible sacrifice? Think about it.
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5:17 pm
“Did you know that Jesus Christ died for YOUR sins? How do you plan to repay that incredible sacrifice? Think about it.”
Oh Christ on a fucking stick, there you go again. Tell me, Billings, if you Christians don’t believe in reincarnation, HOW could Jesse have been around in the time of Christ for him/her to commit sins?
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10:22 am
The last unclassified minority group in America is the target of discrimination, incareration, harassment. They are treated as less then citizens only when they possess their drugs, then back to normal citizens when they smoked it all, what other action which has been deemed illegal is like that? This group is called the Hippies, and it is roughly around 100,000,000 Americans strong,yet since they are of all races, classes they don’t count as a minority but they are.
As a religious person it seems that by judging what you don’t know based on what you were told goes against all teachings in the bible. Love each other is the only one which you seem to not know about.
Labeling a plant anything other then a creation of god is the root of hippies venting. They only wish that religion did not let them down by only embracing a plant which can solve so many of our problems. The actions which were started in the 60′s were only trying to wake up the world to corporate pollution, which could be solved today if we would only make pot available, since the government itself holds the patent for cannabis
Patent number 6,630,507
so hippies want peace, love and happyness, and you seem like you like war, hate
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10:44 am
There is no such thing as heaven. Jesus was just a guy in a suit. When you die you just rot in the ground.
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11:03 am
The nice thing about marijuana is that an article like this is more likely to bring a laugh rather than anger, which was my first reaction. I guess that’s why most of the young people you portray here are smiling. If you insist on spreading misinformation and hate, you might as well leave religion out of it, because you aren’t doing any Christians any favors.
BTW, we don’t hate you.
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11:14 am
I gotta ask, and I’m not trying to incite an obviously useless fight as many have done on this article. I am not going to change your mind and you will not change mine, but where in the world do you get your facts? Please do not say the Bible, because I know that is where you derive your beliefs from. My question is where do you get your FACTS from? Just so we are clear what I mean when I say facts, you say that hippies do not contribute to the domestic economy. The reality is they do in a very large way. For instance take a concert by lets say Phish. The people that tour with them aka hippies will arrive in a city in the US and collectively drop millions into the economy. If the city is lucky the concert is a 2 or 3 night run. Hotels, concert tickets, restaurants, grocery stores, gas stations all benefit from these Hippies. Remember SOME hippies sell drugs and that money has to go someplace. Not like they can put in a 401k. Oh yeah don’t get too hung up on the some hippies sell drugs thing, because in my experience you are talking about a small percentage. Many of these ungodly people own businesses, have college degrees, families, pay taxes, are sober in their life, and even regularly attend a judo-christian church. So how about those facts?
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11:21 am
What an idiot!
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11:29 am
Is this web site satirical or serious?
If it’s the latter, I can assure you that the person who wrote this article is way farther from the mainstream (and the sane for that matter) than hippies are.
“The Phish” … lolz
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11:38 am
Ok–so this is a satire site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christwire
Gotcha. This was sent to me as a serious article by a non-christian.
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4:23 pm
That was a prank. The Times issued a retraction and CW actually did an article on the whole thing. Old news.
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1:03 pm
Mr. Billings,
Could you link us to the NYT contraction?
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12:11 pm
I love this article it has made me and all my friends laugh a lot. I have only done six or seven of the drugs you mention, the rest are on my to do list you can be assured!
One thing- Why is consumerism the first thing you criticize hippies for not taking part in? When did consumerism become a tenet of Christianity?
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1:03 pm
that was a funny read…there are points where you almost want to take it seriously ….well done
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1:13 pm
wow this Stephenson Billings guy is such a dick….he must have more free time than a hippy.
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1:13 pm
Dear Author,
You are mind-blowingly ignorant. Just because people have a different way of expressing themselves doesn’t mean they’re bad people. You put them down because you don’t know what to make of them and are obviously intimidated by this “hippie culture.” Learn to embrace all kinds of people. America is beautiful because of it’s diversity and FREEDOMS. Thank God not everyone’s like you. The world would certainly be fucked.
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4:25 pm
You certainly don’t understand what Evangelical Christianity is and why it’s essential for the survival of America as we know it. I have made my case very clear in the article above why happies pose a clear and present danger. Try reading it again if you’re confused.
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3:33 pm
so, i have a question…if you are so worried about our “socialist” leader and our hippies, and our “drug abuse” why don’t you just leave this terrible country?
and secondly, i guarantee you any one of those “hippies” (yeah those drug loving, orgy having, dread wearing patchouli scented people) would give you everything they had- including the shirt off their back and their last hit of weed- if you needed it.
you are a fucking moron. it’s people like you that make me glad that i am not religious anymore. religion is so hypocrytical. OH! and NEWS FLASH: It’s MAN MADE!
how bout you put that in your “bong hit” and smoke it.
ass.
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4:26 pm
SARAH PALIN’S AMERICA!
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Mr Billings,
If Jesus did exist, and he returned tomorrow, who do you think he would seek out? Free spirit Hippies who dont hate anyone, or a narrow minded facist bigot who spouts hate and cannot see the truth for his false beliefs and pious judgements. Jesus may have died but Satan surely lives on through you and your kind. You are so close to those Muslim terrorists you so hate that you just cannot see the truth. I pity you but know that this is just your base journey and that you will return, one day, re-incarnate a more enlightened individual. We all started at the bottom, patience brother, we will wait for you to grow from the animal that you are. Peace.
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3:44 pm
HEY I THOUGHT IF YOU WERE A “FOLLOWER OF GOD” YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO JUDGE ONE ANOTHER, I THOUGHT THAT WAS FOR “GOD” TO DO???
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4:58 pm
just a bored asshole looking for an argument. this cant be real…..
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8:17 pm
is this a joke? seriously, i’m calling shenanigans. this has to be a joke.
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10:33 pm
Stereptype- An oversimplification or generalization about an entire group of people. Something that educated people do not do.
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11:19 pm
Billings,
I am the hippie. I am the hipster. I am no feeble Christ, no, not me. He hangs upon his cross in self-righteous judgment. You nailed him there. You nailed him to the extend of your vision. Suicide visionary. Death reveller. Rapist. Gravedigger. Earthmover. Lifefucker. Jesus.
Dearest Billings,
It was you who scooped the pits of Auschwitz. The soil of Treblinka is rich in your guilt. In the sorrow of your tradition.
But do not fear, good people of the world. People like the man who wrote this article are few, and their traditions are getting fewer. Soon, his prophesies will be fullfilled and God-fearing America will be no more. It will be replaced by educated men and women who know how to live as God really intended them to. By loving eachother. Rich or poor, long hair or short, white or black. Muslim or Christian.
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11:50 pm
Your clearly have a talent with the written word, so sad you use it to promote evil.
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12:15 am
Says the man-child who advocates spouse abuse and genocide.
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12:17 am
The Grateful Dead is notorious for the intense availability of every drug known to mankind at their concerts. Young people tempted into this illicit world rarely return unharmed. Entering into these events, one is assaulted by sexual and psychedelic demands that push you into naked frenzies and hours-long blackouts. The music itself is harsh and overwhelming, crafted to outrage our most basic moral instincts. It celebrates an elite form of hedonism so sickening that one imagines the deepest pits of hell couldn’t possibly be more terrifying. Children have long been cursed into lifelong spirals of wanton sexuality and extreme political fanaticism after being exposed to this sort of experience
WOW you all crazy i have gone to dead concerts for years and have stayed sober. You are relly uninformed. naked frenzies lol.
They have perverted medical science and our legal system to such an extent that deadly street drugs like marijuana are now decriminalized and available to our children at any bus stop. for one thing deadly street drugs like marijuana its more deadly to drink a glass of wine. and marijuana is not decriminalized. next time you write something you might want to do some research.
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4:42 pm
“Deadly street drugs like marijuana” ROFL This absolutely can’t be serious?
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6:46 am
first of all, those pictures display some of the most beautiful people i’ve seen outside of beauty magazines! just gorgeous kids. children of god, i would say! so thanks for that. also, thank you for pointing out that hippies still exist in American because i wouldn’t think that was true, and i’m happy to hear that. i am not a christian, but i find it incredible that people like you think you can draw others into your “flock” by spewing hatred, paranoia and fear. btw, i was a hippie, perhaps i still am. i am middle aged, have an excellent job, my portfolio is growing by the year which will allow me to retire and pursue a hippie lifestyle when i stop working. i pay my taxes, vote and spend lots of the money i make which makes me a pretty damn good citizen. you are not blessed, you are not chosen by god and you, sir, are in great need of some soul searching. i do personally pray, and will personally pray for you because you are in sad need of some kind of love which seems to be lost in your life.
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7:29 am
Do you honestly mean to tell me that this article is not a satire? REALLY???? Cause I thought it was stinkin HILARIOUS! If this is not a satire, the author is certainly hurting his cause by being so absurd, which is fine by me =D Some much needed entertainment on a Thursday night, thanks!
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8:43 am
You are totally insane…
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9:06 am
Dear Sir,
I am a hippie and Christian and it is possible to be both! Let me explain further. I was raised an “evangelical” Southern Baptist but as I grew older there was so much judgement and for lack of a better term, breach of privacy, that I decided to move away from the church BUT not from my faith and my beliefs!
To me the Bible is a book of Love. The teachings of Jesus are love, compassion and acceptance. I did not find this type of attitude in the Church. This was very difficult for me to accept. Every week the messaging was condemning some specific area of society while glorifying the Christian life. To me this is a somewhat skewed point of view if one’s beliefs are based on the teachings of the Bible. Sure anyone can quote a verse to support almost anything that they want it to BUT personally I believe the overall message of the Bible is one of tremendous Love.
So, now let’s get to the hippies. I have found that while almost every hippie community has some of the elements (drug use, nudity, etc.)that you mentioned, any type of behavior is accepted. I work as an Executive in Corporate America, I certainly don’t have long hair, no one cares. I don’t do drugs, no one cares.
I am Christian, no one cares. It is not because everyone is high all of the timer as you suggest in your article BUT rather because the fundamental belief of being a hippie is that everyone has the right to be themselves.
If you were to ever visit a hippie community, you would probably find people from all different kinds of faiths, living and existing in the same community in peace and harmony. For me, this is a lifestyle that is much closer to the teachings of Jesus than what I experienced in the Church.”
Also, just for the record, you are completely inaccurate about hippies luring “school kids into all night drug parties”. A hippie would never do anything like that…those are hippie pretenders. Remember long hair does not a hippie make.
It seems to me that you honor and worship God by condemning all of the elements that you feel are not part of a Christian life and thus shedding light on the aspects that you feel are appropriate for a Christian life…I respect that approach!
I honor and worship God by loving all that is and believing that man was truly created in God’s image and therefore is inherently “good”!…can you respect that?
I don’t see a right or wrong here(of course not, I’m a hippie.LOL)just two different approaches to worshipping the same God!
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7:02 pm
The Bible is about FAR MORE THAN LOVE. It’s about faith and obedience. Stop this “peace love and happiness” nonsense. It’s code for your sex parties and drugs. Hippies and drugs are synonymous (big word, I know, it means they are the same thing). Also, hippies are truly against the American way of life, a way of life that is spreading goodness around the world. Do you really think the French or the Arabs have a better answer? Those corrupt, immoral nations would be lost without the US economy pumping dollars over to those lazy bums.
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the bible is not about love at all.
it’s about how humans are the slaves of an uncareing god. it’s about the suffering and torment he unleash upon those who dare seek another life than said slavery. it’s the egomanical rambelings of a being that craves atention for the sake of atention. basicly he’s a 4 year old with the power to kill you if you don’t do as he says.
and that is why i speard the good word: god is dead. we killed him in our rebelion. you are free so cast of your shackles the slave master is no more.
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Oh hey! I have the tattoo on that boy’s shoulder with the black hair!
=3
I love hipsters.
And hippies.
Wow, Billings, you’ve really succeeded on twisting the beliefs of another group, haven’t you?
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2:09 pm
I have a much better question: why does religion still exist in America?
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Wait… you follow very closely the teachings of James Dobson… and you’re citing that fact in the positive sense?
That’s all I needed to know.
I have no problem at all with Christianity.
It’s fundentalism of any flavor that’s a poison to the world because a basic component of fundamentalism is that it’s proponents have a blind spot that makes them think they are God’s chosen ones and anyone who doesn’t think like they think and believe like they believe are sinners who are going to go to hell.
In this case it’s Billings who mistakes himself for a Chritian when he is actually a fundamentalist.
Let me ask you Stephenson, what’s your opinion of Fred Phelps, the Kansas minister who goes to the funerals of homosexuals who were killed in hate crimes and holds up his ‘God hates fags’ signs to harrass the mourners?
Do you believe he’s a true Christian?
He does. And that’s an example of the weird disconnect that fundamentalists possess in their thinking.
But you believe that you are a true Christian, don’t you?
Let me break it to you gently, sir. You and Fred are suffering the same delusion.
After reading your post and your answers to reader’s comments about your post it’s very clear that you sir are no more a Chritian than Fred Phelps is.
You also are a fundamentalist who believes he’s a Christian. It’s only a matter of degreee that you are any different than Fred.
I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if a future volume of the DMSR (the official guidebook of the field of psychiatry)adds fudamentalism to their list of medically certifiable mental disorders.
The idea that Chrisitans are God’s only chosen people and anyone who doesn’t ascribe to that belief is going to hell unless they repent and embrace Jesus as their savior an must be preached to and saved by people such as yourself is only that, an idea.
It’s astounding that in the mind of a fundamentalist are beliefs that would say that billions of other people the world over who were born into different cultures with their own unique spiritual histories going back as far or farther than the formation of Christianity are sinners bound for hell is about as logically ridiculous as it gets.
Mhatma Ghandi had it right when he said, “I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ.”
I’m happy to be the friend of any Christian who does not feel the need to proslyetize and recognizes that all people everywhere are God’s children with the freedom to believe in whatever idea of God brings them most comfort, joy and guidance for living.
Just about every religion on earth, when you get down to the bottom of it, has some version of “the golden rule” as its guiding principle.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Love thy neighbor as thy neighbor. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not steal. etc.
All of these values permeate all religions at their core. It’s when you get nutcase fundamentalists bending the statements to fit their own agendas and excluding certain people or groups of people that it runs off the rails and is no longer pure that the trouble starts.
Stephenson, I know you sincerely believe you are doing the Lord’s work and that’s exactly what makes you so poisonous to the world.
I love that What Would Jesus Do? bumpersticker. In the case of fundamentalists though, they read it as Who Would Jesus Condemn?
And then they go off on their rants about how they, the superior ones must reach out to the fallen ones to save them from themselves.
It’s a mental abberation to believe you are a true Christian (one who emulates the absolute lovingkindness for all humanity without any trace of condemnation)when actually all you are is a fundamentalist.
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Typo in there. Should have read, “Love thy neighbor as thyself” not “love thy neighbor as thy neighbor.”
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3:42 pm
excellent rebuttal David!
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Dr. Dobson is a brilliant man. As for Phelps, well he’s a complicated man and a bit of a show horse so I don’t know. His sermons are quite good if you just read the texts but I’m not sure why he needs to show up at funerals. It’s a bit over the top, don’t you think? I love our military! GOD BLESS AMERICA AND HER TROOPS!!!!!
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4:42 pm
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Seriously, if anyone actually takes to heart your views I pity them as much as I pity you.
And btw– irregardless isn’t a word mister “investigative journalist”
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6:56 pm
It’s vernacular.
Beautiful photography work, by the way!!!!! I would love to get a studio portrait done some day but maybe you’re expensive.
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6:27 pm
this is highly offensive
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7:03 pm
Dear Author
die quickly you retard…….
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7:10 pm
I guess I could make an attempt to argue something intelligent against “flawless” point made, but you would only hear “Whoa, man, that’s like wicked heavy man. It like really brings me down.”
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7:34 pm
“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians, your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” Mohandas Gandhi.
enough said. PEACE
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9:08 pm
“Don’t call me “bro””
Don’t call us “friend”.
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9:41 pm
stellar. seriously. fake jewelry instead of real diamonds. aaaaaaaaahahahahahahaha! jesus love love loved diamonds!!!!!
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11:18 pm
heres a simple question for you stephen…. if god is omnipresent he knows everything, is everywhere, knows whats happened in the past, and knows of whats going to happen. if he knows the future why run through the process of creating a universe, populating only one planet with only humans and the necessary animal and plantlife to sustain them. when he already knows who is going to be a good christian. why not just blink good christians into existence the way he wanted them to be?
being that is not the state of our current existence, then the obvious question is if god knows who the good christians are already, and what they are going to do, then do we really have free will? he knows who he is going to judge as worthy of entry to heaven. so why run through the process?
you sound like a guy thats knows the bible inside and out. this is a logical problem i have found within the christian faith. so please do not quote the bible for an answer.
do not take it personally, but if there is a fundamental flaw in a belief system, i believe i have the right to ask questions with real answers because the fundamental flaw could stem from the bible version you quote.
by the way, i was raised in a christian family and every person i ask cannot give me a real answer without turning to their bibles and even then they are still stumped.
jesus was in essence an early hippy. he had little posessions, preached about loving one another, and had really long hair. but then who really knows??? probably not even the people that constructed the bible roughly 300yrs after his death.
they omitted large parts of his jesus’s life… (why in the hell would u miss any part of a story about the son of god??) if anything the bible is a book of moralistic stories to live your life by…
im really sick of people getting lost in the “grandness” of saying words like “thee” and “thou”…. religious heads are no different from your zen masters.
and he also appears in the koran??(is that how u spell it?) every religion borrows from one another. there was a similar religion that pre dates christianity that is almost identical. not to mention kings creating there own branches of the same religion so they can divorce.
i know alot of these “hippy” people. and i know i would rather hang out with them (because most of them are really positive, non violent, trustworthy people.) than a bunch of people that follow something really old and outdated in blind faith.
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11:50 pm
My name is Stephenson. Please refer to me correctly if you expect some sort of response.
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sorry for the mistake….. stephenson… can i have an answer now?? b4 u jump down my throat for the people attacking you, i asked you a legitimate question. please dont deny me because i messed up something as simple as a name. i believe in debate.
i come from a christian family and i know most of the stories well enough. if there no room for debate there is only blind faith which can never save anyone.
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10:56 am
r u going to answer my question stephenson? sorry, i have been waiting for a reply for a while. i am still suffering the same issue as b4. please… do u not have an answer? guess ill have to find some one else then.
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11:04 am
billings got arrested. they were talking about it on another board. apparentenly he went awol a month ago and this site is not reporting on it.
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11:54 pm
Your a fuck witt mate. Satan is on your side hahahahahahaha
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1:42 am
The real question is…. why does Christian’s still live in America.
I think that’s the pressing issue.
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The real question is…. why do Christian’s still live in America.
I think that’s the pressing issue.
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Stephenson ,
Cant believe im actually wasting my time writing this as i htink you are blind to all other views other than your own.
You say you are a ‘christian’ yet you are unable to forgive these ‘hippys’ for their ‘sins’. isnt christianity about forgiveness ?
You use words like ‘lured’ and ‘perverted’ and ‘abuse’, and even refer to masturbation in your article. To me this piece is more like a rant against a demographic of society that you a) clearly do not accept and b) are hugely ignorant in your analysis.
The following paragraph highlights your naivety i am afraid mister
“They want to tear our world apart so that they may dance in the shadow of our crumbling faith. And in that darkness, hidden away from common sense and ethical living, they engage in the most vile, bestial acts. Sexual liberation leading to multiple partners, orgies, homosexuality, lesbianism, voyeurism, teen sex and chemically-fueled perversion are all part of their plan. They have perverted medical science and our legal system to such an extent that deadly street drugs like marijuana are now decriminalized and available to our children at any bus stop. They have no compunction against teaching our young to rebel and to hate, to despise Christian teachings and to avoid the responsibility we all have towards our Creator. ”
Honestly ! What planet are you from ? I dont think God would approve of this hate filled rant of extreme and unadulterated bigotry . The generalisations are shocking , as are people like you. Where do you get your information form ? seriously .
Please read the comments that other people have made on the page. This isnt a vendetta against you. You are just wrong. Your views are wrong and i think there is something very wrong inside of you. Have hope though, you may well see the ‘light’ someday. Stop hating .
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3:36 am
Think of every inaccurate, stereotypical, generalization you have ever heard about Christians.
Thought of them?
Right. That’s what you just did to hippies.
Why is it that some of the most quoted words of the bible are so rarely listened to?
“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you” (Matthew 7:12)
For the record:
I work with disadvantaged young people with the Anglican Church.
I do not smoke marijuana.
I am critical of our current government.
I am environmentally conscious.
I hold a distinction average at university.
I frequent music concerts and festivals.
Many of my friends have dreadlocks (they’re educated and work too… and have never hidden their hair in order to appear ‘normal’).
I do not get around naked, even at the beach.
I have never participated, or heard of anyone I know participating, in an orgi.
I desire only to live as I choose without causing harm to anyone else.
My views, opinions, and way of life are valid.
I am not unusual amongst ‘hippies’
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5:02 am
The Bible I read contains this verse.
1 John 4:8
“Whoever does not love, does not know God, because God is love.”
As a saved Christian Deadhead, I know that God/Jesus/Holy Spirit gives me a strong peace and a higher high than any of the drugs I used to enjoy.
That being said, I will listen to the Grateful Dead’s music forever.
Love all, no exceptions….even stinky, long haired hippies.
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5:06 am
Sheer brilliance you had me laughing and dying slowly on the inside at the same time I salute your work sir keep it up
Best laugh I’ve had in a while
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7:50 am
“The Phish”
The phuck?
I really hope this man hasn’t been to college. I think we should be grateful that the Grateful Dead created a culture where there was no culture before. If you’re dissing on them, then you obviously know nothing about modern American music. Sorry to say it, but if you trace back a lot of roots, you’ll find Garcia, Hunter, Weir, Barlow, Lesh, Hart, Kreutzmann, McKernan, all those hard-working men, at the very root tip. Have some respect. Did you know the Grateful Dead toured for thirty years nonstop, not only to bring beautiful art into this world, but because over forty families were given jobs by their touring career, and they wouldn’t be able to eat otherwise? Have some respect for your elders. I am a Deadhead, and yes, there are some young kids who go to these shows seeking some sort of ‘escape’ and treat tour as a way to get high for as long as possible, but those are kids. You just don’t realize who all is a Deadhead. Making a statement about the Grateful Dead, Jerry’s kids, and Grateful Dead family is like trying to make a statement about Freemasons. You don’t know anything unless you’re a living, breathing part of the organism that is the community. So shut up.
However, praises on your article about Phish. That was luxuriously accurate.
Much love and blessings
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8:12 am
WOW! I am stunned at this article. No follower of Jesus Christ could say such vile things! The hippie culture is full of broken and broken hearted people…just the sort Jesus instructed us to reach out to. Satan, get thee hence!
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10:03 am
Stevie…you article displays how organized religion corrupts critical thought. After a couple of paragraphs your diatribe became so predictable that I started scanning your content. That being said, you didn’t mention that hippies are advocates for peace. I’ll take John Lennon as a icon of Peace, anyday.
Peace.
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11:33 am
“For this reason, they pose a threat to the beauty and humanity of the Christian faith in America today.”
Have you ever heard of separation of church and state, [b]PHUCK![/b]
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12:18 pm
The article by Mr. Billings about hippies certainly takes away any credibility one would have in the content of any publication that would allow such misleading hatred. Mr. Billings is obviously very opinionated and doesn’t seem to have the christian values that I would want instilled in my children.
There seems to be hatred for another unlike himself. Is this what your church teaches you? My church would never talk the trash that you believe.
You think you are better than another for your eduucation. You talk of hippies and lack of education as if they go hand in hand. I believe that education is great but not the ultimate for understanding. You know that all people have their gifts and I’m certain of many of mine. You should know what your gifts are. If it’s slaming unsuspecting individuals who are using their talents then so be it.
How about the bands that you try to trash. What do you really know about music. What, you’ve listened to maybe two or three songs and said it’s bad music? Well maybe you have bad taste in music. There are christians who listen to this music who enjoy what they hear. Is it fair to say that anyone who listens to country music is an inbread, redneck?
“The” Phish, ok you might not have even caught your mistake, but the “hippies” are more educated as to the name of the band. So who should have done their homework to seem more informed?
To tell you the truth, I didn’t even read your entire article. There is nothing relevant to be learned. The comments about concert goers who perform lude sexual acts based on their drug induced states…sorry but I don’t believe Mr. Billings attended a show.
Just know that more people seem to think Mr. Billings is a bit confussed as true understanding is a gift from God…Mr. Billings, unfortunately, lacks this true understanding of good journalism.
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2:51 pm
Despite what you think, Mr. Billings, irregardless is not a word. But now that we’ve judged them, let’s stone these hippie lepers!
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6:12 pm
Jesus would be appalled at this trash. You make me ashamed to be called a Christian.
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8:50 pm
damn straight doc hit the nail on the head not a christian myself but studied the bible and know a lot about christianity and im positive that this kind of hatred and liemongering would leave a very unpleasant taste in the mouth of god the father son AND the holy spirit!as well as nearly every christian i know
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7:39 pm
Good work! This is a hilarious article; we laughed all the way through. You might even best The Onion!
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9:10 pm
anyone for posting this on /b/ and exposing this jackass?
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10:07 pm
search for christwire all years on ny times site.christwire is fake,nothing more
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2:35 am
I would love to violate every orifice of you body billings, with my large throbbing marijuana induced erection.
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3:54 am
I don’t know why you homosexuals are always coming onto me, but I am definitely NOT interested!
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1:13 pm
Maybe it’s their finely tuned gaydar.
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3:42 am
jesus was a hippy, he ate mushrooms and had heavenly visions…..and acording to all the pictures he had long hair and a beard, was 6ft tall and white, wearing loose baggy clothing, shagged a prostitute and turned water into wine…tis a bit witch crafty aint it???
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3:53 am
You’re an imbecile.
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you’re a hypocrit.
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1:10 pm
The more important question is, “Why do hateful, ignorant bigots like Stephenson Billings still exist? I sported long hair and enjoyed free love and various drugs in my youth, but outgrew them. Even then, I valued personal hygiene, as most of the “hippies” I knew did. I’m still a Grateful Dead fan with eclectic musical tastes that include rock, jazz, blues, bluegrass, country, folk, world music, and classical. I’m a short haired military retiree with eleven years of subsequent service to the military as a civilian instructor. I’m a father, a stable home owner and a centrist voter with no party affiliation. I’m also a secular Humanist. So what kind of hippie am I? What neat little pigeon hole would you put me in?
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1:51 pm
this is completely falsified with information…hippies are easily the most fun-loving, open-mided, respectful people you will ever come by…they are far better off than you,you ignorant fool
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8:43 pm
wow people like you really are the problem with the world, misinformed bigoted, blinded by faith with absolutely no idea whatsoever about the people you are writing about i have many good christian friends and despite not being religious was active in the church in my younger life and have a great deal of respect for christians. its a shame you can’t say the same about others with different (and may add entirely peaceful and benign) points of view to your own. and may i add that the man in the red and black coat being manhandled by british police at the bottom of your article is a good friend of mine a lovely person caring and kind to all around him his name is alisdair but we all know him as the wizard and guess what he wouldn’t judge you. shame on you
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9:53 pm
Learn to accept people and appreciate their differences. This was just completely offensive. I would advise you to take a step back and see the world without your small minded perspective.
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10:23 pm
you sir are a fucking ass. stay in your church forever and dont come out.
bite me and all my hippie friends.
christians like you are ruining this world.
go die somewhere alone.
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Sir, your outlook on the entire hippie culture is completely ludicris. You are entitled to your own opinion, but this is just stupid. I noticed that a lot of people are leaving comments saying “jesus was a hippie” and things like that, but they have failed to back their arguements. I assume you are very familiar with the Bible, and so I choose the Bible as my weapon for this debate. For starters, in the King James version, Genesis 9:3, God says, “Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.” Green herb? who’s to say he isn’t talking about marijuana? Alos, in Genesis 19:30-38, there is rape and incest! Lot and his two daughters are in a cave, and his eldest suggests to the youngest that they should be with their father so they might procreate. So they get Lot drunk on wine and sleep with him. Is that what makes Christianity so great? You also talk about homosexuality; How about in the story of Sodom and Gomorrah? All of the men in the city try to rape and sodomize two angels. Yes, God destroys the city, but in doing so he also kills innocent women and children. Your God that you are so fond of and faithful to is nothing but a destroyer with too much power. He kills ands condems. And do you not see anything wrong with talking down on people’s beliefs and practices? This is Amercia, a FREE country. If you are allowed to be a Christian and go to church and be left alone to do so, why can’t hippies do they same? This country has fought long and hard for its people to be able to be free and individual, how dare you insult that.
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12:01 am
DON’T EVEN GET ME STARTED!
THE b WORD RINGS CLEAR HERE…
WELL HERE:)… HAVE SOME PEACE!
ARE YOU KIDDING ME? ARE YOU REPUBLICAN OR KKK?
YOU’RE INFORMATION IS SO, SO, SO ~~ NOT ~~~CORRECT, IT IS ABSURD!
FIRST OFF, EVERY SECT OF LIFE HAS IT’S BAD APPLES (SORRY-YOU’RE LIVING PROOF), BUT …..
I WANT TO SAY THAT MOST “HIPPIES” ARE VERY PEACEFUL, HEALTH CONSCIENCE, HARDWORKING, SACRIFICING, RESOURCEFUL, COMPASSIONATE FOLKS.
THE PEOPLE YOU WOULD WANT TO STOP & HELP YOU IN A SNOWSTORM ON A DESOLATE ROAD WHEN YOUR CAR QUITS. IT’S CALLED KINDNESS, PASS THE WORD!
FURTHERMORE, MOST ARE EDUCATED, EARTH FRIENDLY & CAN SUSTAIN PEACEFULLY WITH THEIR LOVE OF THE MOTHER EARTH, VERY LITTLE MONEY & A TON OF LOVE & SHARING TO MAKE SURE EVERYONE IS CARED FOR NOT JUST THEMSELVES!
IT’S NOT MATERIAL & MONEY FIRST-IT’S LOVE & COMFORT!LIKE CHICKEN SOUP.
IF YOU SAW ME YOU WOULD NOT EVEN THINK, BUT I AM A LONG TIME HIPPIE IN MY HEART & DAMN PROUD OF IT !!!THAT’S RIGHT-PROUD & MY PRAYERS ARE ANSWERED. INCREDIBLE MIRACLES HAPPEN FOR ME OVER & OVER.
EXAMINE YOURSELF.
THE DEFINITION OF INSANITY IS REPEATING THE SAME PROCESS EXPECTING A DIFFERENT RESULT- HELLO, THIS LIFE WE LIVE IS NOT ABOUT MONEY, EGO, POWER OR DICTATORSHIP, IT IS A MOSTLY EQUAL GIFT FROM OUR FIRST CELL, SOMETIMES BAD THINGS HAPPEN, BUT HEY TURN INTO GIFTS ALONG THE WAY.
I AM VERY GRATEFUL FOR MY BLESSINGS EVERY MINUTE.I’VE SURVIVED A LOT BECAUSE I’M STRONG & NOT A LOSER!
I TAKE A SHOWER & DRESS NICE JUST ABOUT EVERYDAY, TAKE CARE OF MYSELF & MY CHILDREN AS A SINGLE PARENT(23&8) -NOT AN EASY JOB BEING DISABLED & LIMITED INCOME.
I FEED THE HUNGRY & HELP, BUILDING A HIPPIE CIRCLE OF BRIGHTNESS TO BE PASSED ON & ON & ON & ON & ON………..
I DO KIND ACTS FOR OTHERS. I PRAY!!!
I COULD GO INTO THE DESTRUCTION & CORRUPTION THAT WAS BROUGHT ON BY GREEDY, UNCARING, STUFFY PEOPLE LIKE YOU BUT I WOULDN’T EVEN KNOW WHERE TO BEGIN- THERE IS ONLY ONE JUDGE WHO CALLS THE SHOTS ON THIS EARTH & IT ISN’T YOU!
BY THE WAY, I AM A VERY SPIRITUAL PERSON, MY RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS,(BTW, I DO NOT PRACTICE ANYTHING AS YOU PORTRAYED, BUT PRAYER) & DO GOOD DEEDS FOR MY COMMUNITY ALL THE TIME.
I THINK YOU’VE GOT MY MESSAGE. INSTEAD OF BEING THE SAME WAY, JUST TRY TO HAVE A HEART, TRY PRAYER & I KNOW YOU WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER WHAT I JUST STATED.
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Are most hippies this erratic and hostile? Your screaming comment is far too frustrating for most normal people to read.
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12:05 pm
Ahem:
“ALLS I WANT TO DO IS HELP YOU PEOLE AND YOU JUSTB SLANDER AND ATTACK ME CONSTANT AND WHY????? BECAUSE YOU”RE ALL INTO SEX AND DRUGS AND WHATNOT AND I STAND UP FOR A MORAL NATION OF THE RIGHTEOUS YOU WILL ALL BURN IN THE DEPTHS OF SATANS LAIR IF YOU DONT REPENT> I DONT WANT THAT TO HAPPEN BUT I AM TRYING TO HELP IF YOU DONT WANT TO LISTEN THEN DONT. NOW GO AWAY AWAY AWAY!” – Stephenson Billings, “Investigative Journalist”
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first of all, this just makes you ppl look like idiots. the part about deadly drugs like marijuana is the dumbest thing i’ve ever heard. reefer isn’t killing ppl.
on top of that there are probably more homosexuals in the christian right then any where else, you just don’t know it. why? because christians apparently don’t have to practice what they preach. you talk about god’s love, but all i see here is hate for ppl who are different from you.
people like the people who run this website are the reason more people are hostile towards christianity
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12:55 pm
I am astonished that you people honestly believe smoking drugs is good for you. You are nuts and it’s people like you who are posing a danger to children today. If pot is so wonderful and healthy, do you think 10 year olds should smoke? It’s radical people like you who belong in jail. What you promote is criminal abuse of minors.
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12:43 pm
http://www.drugfreehomes.org/2011/05/dad-feeds-3-year-old-son-marijuana-to-beat-cancer.html
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11:24 am
and the fact that there is a link on you site asking why obama isn’t protecting white ppl from racisim just proves your backwards rednecks who need to stay at their klan meetings and stop pushing your bullshit views on this country. all you seem to want to do is strip rights away from anyone who isn’t a straight white male
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4:00 pm
How could you write an article like this with out doing research first my friend. . . . being a “hippie” is most def. not a physical appearance nor is it drugs we “ingest” it’s a way of living. . . there are many hippies out there or how ever you want to put it into a category; which is very typical, that look nothing like those in the pictures you post. A Majority don’t even do drugs. . . . . and let it be known most work 40+ hours a week and have a great college education. . . do not judge others and just live your life and let others live theirs. . . . just as easy as you want it to be. No need to sit here and defend youself online and start arguments. . . its okay to feel the way you do every person is allowed to be opiniated. All in all a good writer does some research before making all these different accusations. . . can you tell me that after reading all of the comments from others that you still feel the way you do? If you were to say yes to that than your just egotistical . . .
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4:03 pm
I didn’t have the time to read all the comments so I apologize if I repeat something that’s already been said. I’m really not sure where to begin.
First I’d like to say that the author of this article does not speak for all Christians. There are unfortunately a large number of Christians who probably do agree with him, but there are lots and lots more that are much more rational minded, and I am one of them. I don’t really like a lot of “Hippie Culture” simply because I don’t like it (music is boring, fashion is bland) but I don’t think you’re going to bring on the apocalypse. We just differ on personal style. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t have any experience with people that are described in this article. I think that everyone should try to be more productive with their lives than some folks at festivals seem to be. BUT I know a lot more folks that actually do a lot of good work in their community and just happen to enjoy a joint in their free time while listening to Phish.
To the author: I’d like to see you quote a bit more scripture for your arguments, New Testament preferably, and not studies conducted by men. I really believe that the work of the church should be to help it’s members find a more Christ-like existence, and not to condemn everyone that disagrees with it. God is love. Show your children the true loving nature of the church and they will not stray from it. Focus on why your beliefs are awesome and less on why everyone else is evil. You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
To the detractors of the article: I urge you to not judge all Christians based on this man’s close-minded view. I also urge to you take a bit more time with your responses and try to spell words correctly and use correct grammar (jk). Beyond that, I’m with you on a lot of your comments.
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5:22 pm
Oh man, was this directly copied and pasted from The Onion or Cracked? This is the funniest thing I’ve read all day.
“There are far more homosexuals in the hipster demographic, for the hippie does not enjoy expensive hair products and tight clothing”
That might be the funniest thing I’ve read all month.
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5:24 pm
It’s alright to listen to good music and have fun at shows. Love the neighbor and watch out for your fellow ragers. Don’t do too much. Wear your dreads proud. I had long hair, I don’t understand how my followers think short hair is needed to be productive in society. Happy touring.
And most of all…. Whatever you do, take care of your shoes.
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7:47 pm
Hippies still exist in America to put a bug up the ass of the dildo who wrote this article. The Christian right is a festering scab on the already very dark soul of the United States.
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8:25 pm
Stephenson Billings, you are an ignorant dipshit and a waste of humanity. You let these so called hippies live their lives and you live yours. Doesn’t religion teach you respect for others? Religion is full of hypocrisy. You are a moron and you are ignorant. I seriously hope you die, you are a waste of life if your that ignorant
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10:59 pm
Well it seems you write from an uninformed place where you think all people who look a certain way believe the same things. here in n. cali, there are plenty of dread locked, Christian hippies who accept jesus as the savior and use Marijuana as allowed in Gen.( all seed bearing plants are ours to use).the people you speak of are just children, who fit the title more of street kids or phish kids and are not hippys. The hippys I know smoke a little pot cause they like it and see it as a gift from god and don’t do drugs like you claim. Most of them are people who live with god, off the land, farming organic food and meat an sharing the spirit of god which is love with those who they meet. It seems you want to own god,and that you ,by some divine reason, you know better than gods other children what is best 4 them. You want to mix your twisted patriotism in with your twisted version of faith and call it right. the order of the brotherhood of man and the brotherhood is a higher order than any petty patriotic order you subscribe to.We can all read the bible and don’t need you to stand in the way of our relationship with god. you better remove the log out of you own eye before you worry about the splinter in your brothers. Bless
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12:13 am
Wow… I really hope that you, Mr. Billings, are making a funny on all of us…
I happen to be one of those long haired hippies… First off, I grow my hair for charity. Every two years, I donate my hair to Locks of Love for those children who get Cancer and need wigs to make themselves feel a bit better about themselves. I love The Grateful Dead, and Phish as well. While in my younger years as a teenager, I had a lot of angst and anger towards life and everything else. I listened to heavy metal (not that there’s anything wrong with that), and anger fueled my life. My first experience at a Dead show back in 1994 changed my life. Besides the music, the people I encountered truly showed me what life was all about. Throughout my 17 years into the “Hippy-culture-music-scene” I have grown from a teenaged angst-fueled miserable person, to a happy-go-lucky man who has a love for life. Drugs have been a part of my life, some for the better, and some for the worse. As far as Marijuana, it’s a plant… didn’t your God create all the plants, animals, and people who live on this wonderful planet we call Earth? This also goes for “Magic Mushrooms”. “God” made them too, so who are you to trash what your lord created?
I was brought up Christian, and from what I remember being taught in Sunday School, as well as Bible School as a youth, I always learned that as a Christian, you were to love one another. Where’s your love for us? I could go into a serious debate with you on your religion, but I’ll just list a few points that your kind doesn’t seem to understand.
- The “current” Bible was first written back in the 5th Century by MEN who were given the task to do so by Constantine, the Roman Emperor. Who, by the way, was a Pagan, as was the city of Rome. He changed Rome’s religion because Christianity was becoming more popular and he just gave the people what they wanted. So these men who wrote the first version of the Bible, were writing about things that happened 400 some years ago. The Bible has gone under various changes over the centuries, and as it was rewritten over and over again, interpretations of the previous book were changed to go with what the Vatican needed to keep the religion alive with the times, so to speak. Christianity is a hybrid religion which mostly came from Pagan beliefs. Egyptian Sun Disks became the halos of Catholic Saints. Pictograms of the goddess Isis nursing her son became the blueprint for the images of The Virgin Mary nursing Jesus.
- Our current calander was also designed by the Romans. Jesus was born in March, not December. April 1st was the “New Year” back then, and was changed a few hundred years ago. Did you know that April Fools is because back when the calander changed, those who were not privy to the calander change were called Fools.
- Alot of Christian rituals were diverted from Pagan beliefs. Most all elements of the Catholic rituals – The miter, the altar, the doxology, communion (the act of God Eating) were taken from Pagan beliefs. December 25th is pretty close to the Winter Solstice. By the way, December 25th is also the birthday of Osiris, Adonis, and Dionysus, who were all Pagan deities. Easter comes along the Spring Equinox. Ever hear the term “reproduce like Rabbits”? Spring is a time of rebirth in the Northern Hemisphere, the trees come alive, animals breed, and the circle of life continues, hence the Easter Bunny was born.
-Originally Christianity honored the Jewish Sabbath of Saturday, but Constantine shifted it to coincide with the Pagans veneration day of the sun. To this day, most churchgoers attend services on Sunday morning with no idea that they are there on account of the pagan sun god’s weekly tribute–hence SUNday.
-During Constantines fusion of Pagan to Christianity, he needed to strengthen the new Christian tradition and held a famous ecumenical gathering known as the Council of Nicaea. At this meeting, many aspects of Christianity were debated and voted apon. For instance, until that moment in Christianity beliefs, Jesus was viewed as a mortal prophet… a powerful man, but NOT the son of God. The establishment of Jesus as the son of God was voted on at this Council of Nicaea. There were many gospels besides the ones in the current Bible that talked of Jesus’s human traits, but in order for Constantines “Son of God” thing to work, the other gospels were all gathered up, outlawed, and burned. Some of those texts did survive, like the Dead Sea Scrolls, and of course the Coptic Scrolls which were found in Nag Hammadi.
I could go on for a while, but talking to you is a moot point. You are so stuck in your beliefs that it is pointless to argue with you. I find it quite funny that most Christians hate Jews and Muslims, where Judaism is one of the oldest religions in our history, and the Muslim religion was branched off of the Christian person, Abraham. 95% of all wars on the planet were caused because of religion, the other 5% is for oil… Look at what the Vatican did back in the so called Medieval times. The Spanish Inquisition is one of my favorites… Just THINKING about God in a questionable manner got you tortured. Having a different belief then what the Vatican says got you tortured and death to soon follow if the torture didn’t kill you in the first place. What a fun time to be alive in those times… Believe in what I say or suffer. That doesn’t sound like a God I want to believe in.
Who are you to judge hippies? For the most part, we are far more tolerant an accepting of all people, of all colors, races, and creeds. Have you ever talked to anyone in our culture, or do you just sterotype everyone and everything? I love to tell you that “we are everywhere”… I have plenty of Deadhead friends that are doctors, lawyers, and high titled executives. For the most-part, they look just like your idiot extreme right-wing bible thumpers, and you probably have been in a conversation at some point in your life with one of us and didn’t know it.
I bet you think that the Earth is only 6000 years old too, don’t you? The Dinosaurs never existed, and the Earth is the center of the universe. Scientists are the devil in disguise. How dare they! What about all the other cultures around the planet? Tribes of people who live in the jungles and deserts who never knew or heard of Jesus Christ or Christianity for that matter. Does that mean they all go to hell? What about 10,000 year ago, before Christianity, or Judaism for that matter was born? Are all those people who lived then and long before them go to hell? Humans have only been on this planet for a little under 200,000 years. The planet is billions of years old, we are just a speck of infestation on our mother earth. Like all species, we too will become extinct at some point in time. The Earth will go on until the Sun goes supernova.
There are hundreds of recognized religions on this planet at this time. Who is to say that they are wrong while you are right? Where is your proof that your religion is correct when the others are false. How can you worship a god that says that if you break any of his commandments that you will go to a place of burning damnation, for the rest of eternity……..yet he loves you?? That doesn’t sound like love to me, like your misinformed, twisted, hatred of us Dead/Phish heads.
You know that spiritual, loving feeling that you get from going to Church, the love you feel after leaving your service? Well that is what we feel when we go to hear our music. You, sir, can shout, call us names, and say we are destroying America, but in my opinion, YOU are the one’s who are destroying America.
I hope you might have gotten alittle bit of enlightment by the FACTS that I stated earlier, and I urge you to do some serious research on your religion. I highly doubt you’ll do that, cause you might be afraid that what I said might be correct.
I feel sorry for you. You claim to be a Christian, but you show no tolerance or love for your other human brothers and sisters when they think outside of your tiny box… Speaking of Brothers and Sisters, if you believe in Adam and Eve, you realize that we are all incestuously connected to each other.
Ahhh I could go on forever on how much of a close-minded person you are, but by living in this country, you are entitled to your beliefs… just don’t try to shove them down our throats. I love who I am, and I love my brothers and sisters in the Deadhead/Phish/Jamband music scene. For the most part, we are very peaceful people who love being moved by music. I hope that maybe one day, you will see that for yourself.
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11:23 am
“I grow my hair for charity.” !!!!!!
Yes, me too.
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2:09 pm
The author of this article is an outstanding example of an American Christian!
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3:29 pm
Wait what is wrong with having sex at 17?
What is wrong with being comfortable with your significant other and having leg numbing orgasms?
Do you and your wife or girlfriend just have sex in the missionary position?
… No wonder you are so angry.
I am pretty sure that everything you say here is just hate and you being scared of your fellow man. I am so very sorry you live in such fear.
I am so glad no one takes you serious as any kind of representation of religion.
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8:04 pm
Stephen — I’m sure it was a mistake, because Christians don’t do that kind of thing, but I know for a fact you stole (without attribution) at least one of the images on this post.
I’ve alerted the actual owners of the image. I’d consider taking it down before they pursue legal action.
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8:54 am
Thanks for the threat, hippie.
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8:54 am
And my name is Stephenson, not Stephen. Try to address me appropriately next time.
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10:54 pm
I love how you talk about indoctrination when really that’s all christianity is. Do you have kids? Are they free to become muslims should they want to? Didn’t think so.
You’re a douche, dude. Fuck. Look above here. The entire internet fucking agrees with me. If there really is a heaven after death, do us all a favor and kill yourself. Then we won’t have to explain to *our* children that a bunch of demented faggots believe there’s an invisible man in the fucking sky, who set out to scare kids with a fairy tale about a place called Hell.
We all know Hell isn’t real. Real Hell would be having to spend more than 10 minutes in the same room with you, asshole.
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8:47 am
Billings, Check this out (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k4zTAe7TGw) and consider changing your views about marijuana. Your ignorant perspective and lack of information causes your extreme bias towards a harmless plant God gave us dominion over.. That’s what He made it for. So, please, go and be an investigative journalist… and investigate. Present both sides and let your reader choose. Don’t just falsely blog propaganda. You might actually convince someone that you know what you are talking about, and ruin another innocent child’s life.
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8:52 am
Is your brain too corroded by street drugs to realize that you posted this twice? Typical, you stoners are always repeating yourself, forgetting the last sentence out of your mouth. It’s all about YOU in this world, isn’t it? Well, I responded to your post on the previous page of comments here, you little toker you.
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12:51 pm
You constantly have repeated your propaganda… I wouldn’t consider my mind corroded, I seem to just be a little more open and tolerant of others. At least MY street drugs(Mary Jane) don’t kill daily(or ever) like your shitty ass countries LEGAL DRUGS that actually “do” ruin families.
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12:59 pm
When I read this, I laughed until my sides hurt at the absurd and venemous attacks made against “hippies”, which are based only on observation of a very small percentage of the group. Then, I wanted to cry for the poor soul that would write such profanities about any other human being, especially considering how devout he is to his faith – which is supposed to embody values of love for all beings. It would be very easy to turn this argument around and make the same blanket statements about Christians based on the acts of a few dangerous zealots – like the Minister from Florida who wanted a Koran burning day in protest of a Muslim family center blocks from Ground Zero.
You, sir, need to do more research before writing such a vile piece of propaganda, and take a long hard look in the mirror before you go pointing fingers at a small group of people who you think are destroying your precious “culture”.
Yours truly,
A Magna Cum Laude University Grad and Elementary School Teacher (of your kids!!)
Daughter of a Wiccan Priestess, and devout barefoot tree-hugging “hippie”
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1:08 am
You are destroying America, little lady.
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1:29 am
Christianity stupidity and ignorance of the Uneducated american is The downfall of USA you NEVER been a GREAT country since what Abraham Lincoln Other than that You just exploited war over war over war over war
and Killings millions of people because you want Oil and other ressource or to control them
USA soon will Fall On their knee and don’t blame me or your allies for that it’s your own Problem
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1:18 pm
Dear. Mr Billings,
I am a dread-locked, long haired, little girl with face piercings, rapped stones around my neck, rings on my fingers, home-made clothing, a huge smile, and a heart overspilling with love for every human being on the planet, as well as every animal, plant, rock and tree. YES-SIR, my goal in life, just like Christ is to love and spread love. Jesus was an INCREDIBLE role model, and everyone should take his example!
I believe that education is one of the most important assets that this country has to offer people, and as a devout “hippie” I graduated highschool with honours, and am still in the process of looking for a good university that suits my fancy. AS A DIRECT SOURCE FROM THE HIPPIE COMMUNITY– WE value education in all packages- reading, travelling, university, home-schooling, apprenticeships, spiritual seeking, finishing highschool, and living with the understanding that everyone you meet has something to teach you. INFACT, my dear friend, MR Billings, the acronym “HIPPIE” has the following meanings.
H appy
I ntelligent/ Interesting
P erson
P ursuing
I nfanite/inner
E nlightenment
So you see, brother, We are a communitiy of loving, knowledge seeking, moral individuals.
I know First Hand that the reputation of drug abuse, dropping out or being a negative influence on the nation’s children comes from a group of people who are exactly that. The only reason that the “mainstream” media, and yourself consider them “hippies” is because the hippie community does NOT cast anyone out based on personal problems that they may have, In fact, WE end up HEALING and LOVING the individuals that are cast out from the communities of people who do not accept them for whatever idiotic reason…( homosexuality, religious freedom, lack of a consumerist lifestyle, love for all humanity…etc.)
The reason that many of us choose to live on farms, communes, or simply off the grid, is that we refuse, with every bit of love for the earth to participate in consumerist tendencies such as buying cheap products made by ENSLAVED CHILDREN in other countries, or buying products that are made by companies with no discretion when it comes to harming the planet. WE also dont like to eat animal products that come from animals who were TOURCHERED or kept in CAGES their entire lives. WHY do we feel this way? BECAUSE WE HAVE LOVE, PURE, GENUINE, CHRIST-LIKE LOVE FOR EVERY LIVING CREATURE AND OUR SACRED PLANET.
Our outdoor based, earth loving lifestyle is the reason why our bodies are natural, unshaven and smell of body odor – we embrace and love our bodies-JUST THE WAY GOD MADE THEM…every aspect of a human body in its natural form is God’s creation!!!!!!!!!(thank you, God! thank you Goddess!!)
Living like this makes our bodies infanitely more resistant to bacteria, viruses, contaminated water, or other things that most people have to immunized for, or hospitalized for. In MY OWN experiences, my hippie knowledge has allowed me to cure staff infection with tumeric and tee tree oil, more than once. The common cold is easily treated with eucalyptus, and ecanashia. stomach aches with peppermint, ear infections with garlic, headaches are gone with simple breathing techniques….and the list goes on. The ability to not only survive, but FLOURISH in the world, without the help of ANY society that is put in place is the goal of this resistance. We teach these practices and share them with all who will listen, Because to HEAL ourselves, the world around us, and EVERY human being is our goal, physically, mentally, and spiritually. We are warriors of the Light, and our gift is endless Compassion.
It is with great sadness that I experience, so deeply your HATRED for a our blessed, God given love and happiness. And as a hippie, I am SO SORRY for your thorough MISUNDERSTANDING of our rich culture , that has led you to publish such a slanderous article, but i have no doubt in my mind that God will forgive you for your hatred, for he loves every one of us.
I sincerely hope that your heart will be filled with love and light, and your hatred extinguished, for it is a heavy burden to carry.
With all the love of the hippie community, all my brothers and sisters,
BLESSED BE.
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1:15 am
Why do you people need to brag about your hardcore looks? I really don’t care.
And let me tell you this: hippies are the most selfish and conceited people you will ever meet. They pretend they’re all about peace and love, but what they really want is for you to join their cult of drugs and used clothing. They have no patience for ideas that do not fit their own narrow worldview. They all subscribe to a specific set of conspiracy theories and half-baked gossip. They share in this turgid GROUP THINK and if you’re not willing to embrace it too, “You’re not cool, man.” When it comes to personal possessions, they are intensely selfish and uncaring. The fact they pretend otherwise just shows what hypocrites they all are. They really hate to spend money or lend anyone anything. Their clothes, the garbage they cover themselves with (piercings and cheap jewelry), they get very conceited about and act like it makes them the greatest thing on the planet. Intellectually, they are insufferable and repeat the same childish theories passed along from one parking lot to the next. They lack basic powers of mental discrimination, all too afraid to question even the most basic facts of life in the hippie world. Take a look at this environment from the outside, won’t you? It’s full of drug addiction, terribly out of shape people and uncleaniness.
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2:14 am
Did you Just said Hippies has NARROW worldview mind
and you don,t even want to accept Hippies in american culture it’s does contradict yourself you know
Christianity is a Real big Joke and I have a Lot of Hippies friend and seriously they Know I’m not the “hippies type” and we talks a lot about everything and they are friendly they even come to me for opinion or to even ask help and Vice versa
actually You hate hippie because you hate freedom love and peace it’s obvious In many of your article
How Many time you wnat to nuke Iran iraq saudi arabia china japan russia europe cuba venezuela and south america to the whole ? you can’t even COunt it on your finger seriously Billings either you SHUT UP or you KILL YOURSELF
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2:53 pm
Ohh my, I have to say, this is the funniest, least based in reality observation I have ever seen!
I think whoever wrote this, is probably a hippie trapped in a crazy christians world, and wrote it as a joke!
There’s no way someone could be so uneducated about so many things…It’s just impossible…
I especially loved this part:
They take great pride in spreading their foul disease to young and old alike, drawing blood oaths from the innocent or feeble-minded, anyone to grow their political numbers and push this country closer to a socialist dictatorship.
Sounds just like Christianity to me! Do u crazy people remember history? Jesus Christ, you’re crazy!
Christians have done more messed up stuff on this planet than most any other group…
Long live REAL HUMAN BEINGS, not cookie cutter un-educatied (or mis-educated) lemnings!
<3 u all, even if u decide to be crazy christians.
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6:42 pm
Wow, Stephenson. For an investigative journalist, it doesn’t seem that you do much investigating, although I sense that you’re much too closed-minded to attend a Phish (not The Phish–that was hilarious!) show. Your judgmental, holier-than-thou snubbing of things you very obviously know nothing about only deter non-Christians from a life of faith. You, sir, give Christians a bad name.
I love going to Phish shows, their music is complex, beautiful, and FUN. (do you know what that is?) I am also a professional and a Christian. Maybe you should have investigated further.
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1:18 am
Not beautiful. Not at all. Their music is repulsive and you people have no clue.
ps. Great video for parents!
Do you know how to spot evidence of marijuana violations in the home?
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9:43 am
You are a horrible Christian and a joke. Thanks for the laugh.
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12:22 pm
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1:24 pm
Wow. This article is a shining example of Poe’s Law:
From the Wikipedia:
Poe’s law (religious fundamentalism) — “Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humour, it is impossible to create a parody of fundamentalism that someone won’t mistake for the real thing.” Named after Nathan Poe who formulated it on christianforums.com in 2005. Although it originally referred to creationism, the scope later widened to religious fundamentalism.
There is no way I thought this wacked out, nut-job of an article could be real, but now that I see comments by the author describing his faith, I am floored.
FSM, save us all…
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3:26 pm
you are generalizing from cliches, hippies are as diverse as everyone else. there are a lot of cliches that are tied into hippies culture but hippies are more accepting of someones faults then any religion. There are straight edged hippies and there are junkies that are hippies and everything in between. Hippies stand to have a voice for change concerning issues that are not just. They are also a culture that pushes for sustainability in a world that is under resourced to feed itself.
You sir, who wrote this article live in indulgence and ignorance to have been able to ponder up such an argument of justification to ones self identaty.
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8:50 am
“They have perverted medical science and our legal system to such an extent that deadly street drugs like marijuana are now decriminalized and available to our children at any bus stop.”
Why don’t you smoke it once so you realize marijuana’s effect on your body/mind is less than alcohol’s, which all good Christians love.
Deadly street drugs like Marijuana…how could you be so ignorant.
Lolz at u noob
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1:44 pm
This was the funniest thing I have ever read in my life. That is good satire.
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3:47 pm
Hippies are the best people ever. I was raised Republican, that’s why I’m not one. It’s people like you why there’s so much hate in the world. Who are you to tell someone how to live there life? You should be ashamed of yourself for living in such a closed minded world. That’s not the way this wonderful country was created. In the United States we are aloud to dress, act, express our opinions and live our lives how ever we damn well want, and there is nothing you can do about it. why? because this is a free country. I’ve been to Afghanistan twice as a soldier, and when I see people like you trying to control people because you don’t agree with how they live their lives it makes me sick. You should open your eyes and see the world how it really is, instead of closing your mind behind the (FAKE) word of the bible.
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Hear Me Stephenson: It sounds like you have been very scared for a very long time. That’s ok! It’s completely normal (human) to fear what you don’t know, but making a bunch of inaccurate generalizations about good, loving people is a disgrace to yourself, your opinion and even your religion. I go to these Dead and Phish (not “The Phish”) shows frequently, as well as MANY other like-minded shows (you claimed that The Grateful Dead and “The Phish are the only jam/ jazz bands around). I don’t feel the need to do drugs (although I have given them a try before judging them, and yes, they’re the bee’s knees) in order to enjoy the music. I have a perfectly fulfilling time without them and I know that other concert-goers would agree.
I’m a jazz trumpet player myself and these bands have some of the best musicians and energy in the world; that is what draws me in. I DO AGREE with you that drugs have crippled the scene in some way (some people [addictive personalities] can’t handle a little bit and get sucked into addiction), but I’m only referring to PHYSICALLY DANGEROUS DRUGS such as heroine, cocaine and, the most dangerous, ALCOHOL! when you make false claims saying things like marijuana is deadly, hippies seek to corrupt children, or that all hippies are sexual deviants, you ruin your argument and come off sounding like a frustrated display of ignorance.
I have a bit a displeasing news for you as well: our capitalist, over masculine, greedy, profit-driven, and selfish world is what drives people to abandon the Christian-American-Apple Pie way of life, not drugs. You are aware that the Catholic Church has killed more people in the name of God than any hippy, right? Tell a hippy that you don’t agree with his/her ways and he/she will smile and let you keep walking (maybe leaving some non-threatening words of wisdom as you go to make you think more openly), but tell a Christian that you don’t agree with his/her ways….you’re left with a long speech filled with ignorance and hate (or the Spanish Inquisition)!
The point of all this is: don’t comment so surely on what you know nothing about and don’t you dare accuse these fun-loving people of corrupting children (cooperations and religions do more to corrupt children than any hippy). This hate-filled-article is filled with nothing but hear-say fear tactics and poorly-written propaganda (not that any intelligent reader would buy into this nonsense). I’m not asking you to leave your hair long and smoke some hash with us (although Jesus probably would have done just that, given the time he lived in), but I am asking you to keep your pretentious and horribly false assessments to yourself. Out of all the people in this world that I can’t stand dealing with, you are the most unbearable; masking your displeasure and slander under the guise of morality. You really think God wants you spreading this hate for other humans? This doesn’t sound like a righteous man to me.
So consider my message or, keep living in your small, sheltered box, hidden from reality and keep telling yourself that the system, that you’ve so blindly bought into, is looking out for your best interests. The truth is, no political system or “American way of life” is there to help you; it’s there to make money for few at the expense of many. The sooner you let this issue go and start worrying about your own life, the sooner we can all live peacefully together. Do not stick your head in the fire if you do not wish to get burned.
-Greg “Love, Peace, UNDERSTANDING and CLARITY for ALL”
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10:50 pm
Goodness me…which region of hell did you fly in from??
I can understand the animosity Christianity feels towards hippiedom, after all the 60s hippies orchestrated the destruction of the international Christian movement by exposing it as a fabrication & false prophet while offering better alternatives to spiritual sustenance more in keeping with Christs original vision!
America is pretty much Christianities last stand & it too is about to meet its judgment on the basis of its anti Christ activities. Unbeknown to you the great hippie revolt is orchestrating the demise of the US economy because we have Christ on our side.
Check out this web site & you might just get informed & save your spirituality at the same time.
much love
Peter Terry NAMBASSA
http://www.myspace.com/nambassa
ps We r just simple every day people fulfilling the vision of the Christ
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1:49 pm
Well, I read this again. You, sir are wrong. I’m not a huge Grateful Dead or Phish fan but if you listen to their studio albums you’ll see that it is nice music. Listen to Friend of the Devil (which you are) and tell me it is not a beautiful song.
Also, the Bible. The Bible was yesterdays form of Television. Many of the writers of the Bible were taking drugs. How do you think that stuff happened? Hallucinations. Why do you think the mushroom is in so many church paintings and windows?
If you go back to any modern day culture that hasn’t changed in thousands of years, they have drugs too. Does that make them bad?
You sir, are a self-righteous asshole and it takes one to know one.
Jesus was a hippie. It was pricks like you who killed him.
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1:53 pm
Well, I read this again. You, sir are wrong. I’m not a huge Grateful Dead or Phish fan but if you listen to their studio albums you’ll see that it is nice music. Listen to Friend of the Devil (which you are) and tell me it is not a beautiful song.
Also, the Bible. The Bible was yesterdays form of Television. Many of the writers of the Bible were taking drugs. How do you think that stuff happened? Hallucinations. Why do you think the mushroom is in so many church paintings and windows?
If you go back to any modern day culture that hasn’t changed in thousands of years, they have drugs too. Does that make them bad?
You sir, are a self-righteous asshole and it takes one to know one.
Jesus was a hippie. It was pricks like you who killed him.
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12:08 pm
“and avoid precious metals like gold or diamonds”
Parenthesis are your friend numpnuts.
In all seriousness this is hilarious, I cant even tell if your serious or a satirist.
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1:33 am
I love jesus, hippies are fags.
and fags go to hell
yeeeehaaaawww
When Jesus comes back and beats the living shit out of all the commies and homos, you will be sorry….and wished you were on our side
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7:13 pm
Jesus had long hair and radical ideas
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11:04 pm
“Blessed are the peacemakers…”
-Jesus
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7:24 pm
Thanks to this post I will now only worship masturbation, having never before realized that such a thing was possible.
All hail my clitoris.
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6:29 pm
hmmm, your views on economics seem to be the polar opposite of those held by Jesus. Could you remind me what his job was? Oh ya, he didn’t have one – he walked around contributing nothing to the economy, but EVERYTHING to society by showing love to his fellow man. Jesus came to save, rather than condemn, maybe one day you will follow in his footsteps, but as of now – you have turned your back on the Lord by showing so much hatred to your fellow brothers and sisters.
P.S. I am a “hippie” with a 3.8 GPA at a top tier University and have been working since I was 14 – maybe you won’t generalize large groups of people in the future, the way that atheists all too often generalize faithful people as being lunatics (this article certainly isn’t helping!)
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3:07 pm
Jesus Christ would be ashamed of Reagan. “Blessed are the meek” not “You’re poor because you obviously don’t work hard enough.”
Jesus didn’t say anything about “tidy appearances” or marijuana.
Hippies are more like Christ than the weird fundamentalist manipulation of Christianity to mean “capitalist values” in so many minds today. I think you should read your Bible more and watch less Fox news.
I’m probably one of the “Hippies” you’re talking about. I feed the homeless, believe in the power of positive thoughts, words, and actions, and I don’t like smoking marijuana or taking psychadelics.
Just because we don’t dress like you & would rather think for ourselves than have our values dictated to us by an institution which clearly has no concern for the common good of mankind doesn’t mean we’re trying to stop you from being ignorant and deluded, or ruin the good time you have thinking that you’re better than everyone else while doing the very things Jesus spoke against by speaking hatefully about others. By all means, enjoy your bigotry. Just please stop calling “Phish” “The Phish”. K?
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2:28 pm
Wow, I thought this article was a joke it’s so ridiculous.
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7:42 pm
Great satire…..I like the way you start the first 3-4 paragraphs sounding just like the righties on TV and Radio, and then slowly lure us into the silliness without us realizing it until we take a second read.
BTW, I think the cute girl selling flowers is in the Red Rocks Parking Lot.
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3:08 pm
This article made me laugh until tears were coming out of my eyes… the assumptions… and, oh, the fear of what the writer apparently does NOT know.
my parents met at woodstock. they are “hippies” to this day… they are both Stanford Alumni (one is a PhD and the other has a Master’s), raised six intelligent and open minded children. My mother was a devout Christian and my father is Jewish.
I’m sharing the hilarity. This is probably one of the funniest articles I’ve come across in a LONG time.
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2:49 am
wow who wrote this is such a moron. I mean they talk about god and don’t even know anything about her. They can quote a book but can feel or understand what it’s about. I am sorry writer that you can understand life. I will pray for you.
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2:50 am
wow who wrote this is such a moron. I mean they talk about god and don’t even know anything about her. They can quote a book but can’t feel or understand what it’s about. I am sorry writer that you can’t understand life. I will pray for you.
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11:53 am
Behold the reasoning behinds this mans faith!
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4:23 pm
This is a joke, right? Tell me this is a joke. If not, this is some of the most idiotic trash I’ve ever read on the internet.
By the way, the band is called “Phish”, not “The Phish”. And, last time I checked, aren’t all clothes used once you’ve worn them?
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5:10 am
Dear Mr. Billings, Man of God,
If you ever have some time to relax from your battle against these unrepentant heathens that threaten the lives of Good Christians and Patriots and their Children, you might view an old
movie by the title of “Joe” from 1969 starring deceased actor Peter Boyle. Boyle takes the role of a father whose daughter gets caught up in the clutches of these rabid drug-abusing long-hair evil doers that thumb their noses at The Lord, and he sets out to clean out the cockroaches.
If we could do the same, we wouldn’t need to see our hard-earned money thrown away on socialistic programs like Social Security and could put more money into things that are important, such as getting Bibles for every classroom in this country and adequately funding God’s retribution against Satan’s army of non-believers who seek to do us harm in the east.
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3:47 pm
Wow, these people look like the worst souls alive! they appear so hateful and full of spite. its quite a shame that these happy life living souls are ruining the integrity of the respectable United States of America. i agree! stop this from happening! no one should be able to live the life they want! that’s not fair to all us unhappy angry people! we’ve all worked really hard to be miserable and control the lives and choices of others and these damn hippies are ruining all of it! they just walk around and do whatever they damn well please, and i’m not going to take it anymore! it’s bad enough we have multimillionaires and spoiled upper american teens on cocaine and oxycotton, shooting heroine, and abusing every pill on the market for legal retail sale, we don’t need these low-lifes smoking weed and watching movies in the comforts of their own homes.
this ends now! who’s with me! lets take down all those dirty hippies, the south will rise again!
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1:25 pm
Was this article originally written for the Onion?
“There are far more homosexuals in the hipster demographic, for the hippie does not enjoy expensive hair products and tight clothing.”
…you’ve got to be kidding me.
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7:33 pm
Yep, Bat Shit Crazy. You know what I think…I think someone “dusted” you in the sixties or seventies and you just never came back.
Do you live in your mother’s Basement?
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5:03 pm
Christ taught unconditional love. Does any ignorant racist egocentric money-whoring nationalistic conservative prejudice republic beef-loving fatty even have the SLIGHTEST idea of what that even means?
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8:38 pm
This is so beyond disturbing its laughable. Clearly the writer only knows how to write based on generalities and poorly researched stereotypes. Learn to love all human beings equally. Step outside your box and realize there is a whole world out there to understand. Maybe love a little more and hate a little less.
I know how ridiculous it is to be even posting here. I enjoy the silliness of these articles but it saddens me that people actually believe this mess.
Oh and the band is called Phish not The Phish LOL
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6:49 pm
Billings,
We are on the verge of a whole new age, a whole new world.
Mankind’s consciousness, our mutual awareness, is going to make a quantum leap.
Everything will change. You will never be the same.
All this will happen just as soon as your ready.
Come on in; the water’s fine.
He who hesitates is lost.
He who chooses life is found.
We are learning not to draw lines.
No lines between black and white.
No lines between young and old.
No lines between our side and your side.
No lines between you and me.
Not to draw lines is not to discriminate.
The ability to discriminate is the key to perception.
Are we taking leave of our senses?
Maybe.
Maybe we are learning to draw lines with disappearing ink.
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6:19 am
WOW! This is the most ridiculous but funny thing I’ve read in a while. Such a strong image portrayed that displays “hippies” as the scum of the earth. If you opened your mind a little you would be able to see that republicans are the scum of the earth portraying the public eye and pouring billions of dollars into the pockets of corporations. While you Christians sit by and accept and support corporate slavery. Maybe you guys should spend some time opening your eyes, rather than wasting time writing the most idiotic things I’ve ever heard.
P.S. some of the biggest sluts and drug users I’ve known have been Christians.
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6:07 pm
Wow. Sounds like you have a lot of hate, and for a subculture of people you obviously do not understand at all. The assumptions & generalizations made here are absolutely absurd and extremely exaggerated. Honestly it sounds like a joke.
On top of it all, using Christianity to spread your hate for people different than you… I would imagine even if someone was a Christian and had dreadlocks you would consider them “sickening creatures” as well?
If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
–1 John 4:20
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1:23 am
Mr. Billings,
your faith betrays you!
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11:57 pm
hahaha this was a joke right? there’s no way the author was serious…
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12:24 pm
my hard working talented tax paying nephew is one of your featured photos!!
get your facts straight…your bias is showing
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2:13 pm
The lack of imagination of these christians truly amazes me sometimes. Not only are these essentially the exact same arguments levied at the socialists, homosexuals, well, lets make this easy… the same arguments directed at anyone who is different than them, but they never change. Spice it up a little guys! You’re living in a fantasy of your own creation, and THIS is the best you can come up with? I refuse to believe that someone that can believe in a magical sky fairy that reads your thoughts and responds to your pleas, creates the universe in six days, hates literally everyone except christians (even though he made everyone… no idea…) but anyways, how can people that believe in this utter hogwash not come up with new arguments in the last 200 years? I don’t know what amazes me more, the patent lack of any originality in christianity (the entire thing is plagiarized) or the utter laziness of its adherents to contribute creatively to any aspect of it.
Just off the top of my head… “hippies are so hateful of god that they refuse to shower for fear of destroying any microorganisms on their skin, because they believe that mother gaia’s (non human) children are far more important than the humans they are living upon, which are the demonic spawn of lucifer”
does it make sense? hell no. does it need to? not to christians, so use it!
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1:17 am
Stevie,
Once again you’ve hit comic gold! Thank you for the devestatingly funny and ironic tale of dread-headed-dreamers. The truth hurts…
Key Points & Take Aways:
1) “They avoid police stops on our roads by tucking their long hair back into their shirts and driving moderately,”
2) “On a personal level, a hippie can be defined as a person who will abuse drugs until the day he or she dies, irregardless of health issues or pleas from their children.”
3) “the hippie does not enjoy expensive hair products and tight clothing”
Cheers!
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2:58 pm
I think it is amazing that people do not recognize satire when confronted with it, so obviously.
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3:30 pm
”They want to tear our world apart so that they may dance in the shadow of our crumbling faith”
DAMN STRAIGHT
our government is not looking out for us, they make it comfortable enough for us not to want to rally against them. it seems like this describes all free thinkers, and to make that out to be a bad thing is really closed minded…
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5:30 pm
Name one thing the hippies have accomplished in all their years as “a threat to American society.” Seriously, just one. I’ll wait. A couple protests here and there and a few misdemeanor crimes, but no REAL revolution has ever stemmed from this group. Cultural revolution I guess, but political upheaval? Absolutely not. See, the problem with morons like yourself is that you ignore the real problems of our society and focus on the people you don’t understand (hippies, Muslims, gays, etc.).
You are not concerned about criminals. If you were, you’d stop worrying about hippies smoking pot and taking LSD (none of which affects you) and lobby for the crooks on Wall Street and in our own government to be put behind bars.
But, alas, simple minded God-fearing individuals like yourself will continue to be used as pawns in a chess game played by the puppet masters of this country. Like George Carlin said, “It’s a small club…AND YOU AIN’T IN IT.”
If you’re ever fortunate enough, you will realize that the “morals” and “values” you’ve been brainwashed to believe are put in place to control primitive people…like you.
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8:39 pm
I’m a hippie from the 60′s. I know the truth. I also know Jesus intimately. Jesus has been VERY active in my life and has given me the geatest gift I can imagine – a new family with the best little 6 year old boy in the world, all mine at the age of 60 – my Lord’s reward to me for a life well lived as his good and faithful servant.
I can’t imagine any person being as misguided and offensive as the so-called preacher who wrote this stuff. I’ll definitely be talking with Jesus about this guy, his prejudices, and his absolute lack of facts! I don’t think he’s stupid or uneducated. I think he is deliberately doing the devil’s work of dividing the faithful. His journalism is YELLOW, meaning he is actively spreading hate, falsehoods, and trying to incite the good people of the church to become good people doing bad things because they don’t know any better. Kinda makes this guy on the wrong side to Christ, because Christ is ALL about TRUTH and LOVE. This guy… He’s lost.
People, I hope you’re smarter than this guy is. Pot doesn’t make you bad. Dressing poorly doesn’t make you evil. Only what is in your soul makes you good or bad, and ONLY God can judge you. This so called preacher is full of judgement, but he isn’t God, and his judgement is FALSE. Jesus is the way to salvation. I hope the writer of this misguided and twisted hate editorial DOES find Christ. He sure doesn’t know Jesus now. I’m sure Jesus condemns hatemongering like that so clearly displayed in this document.
I’m sorry I wasted my time reading it.
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1:00 am
There is something going on that is so much greater than only that which you have allowed yourself to learn and accept as true and real if you would only open your eyes to see it.
http://vimeo.com/20089255
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5:35 pm
i kick hippies and ride choochoo trains masturbate and black out and ingest varius cocktails of haluciginec chemichals and im just fine
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1:23 pm
Hippies, in the sense of the 1960′s and 70′s ilk, practiced and preached of LOVE to one another and all things. I find their message draws much from Christ and his creed to “love one another”.
Your diatribe of an articlw sounds more like a Taliban-esque political statement than anything I ever experienced as a drinker of the Kool Aide, on the Bus Grateful Dead fan.
A little advice to the author: Be careful around this modern Hippie Scum, ’cause if they sink their drug infused, LSD tainted talons into your hide, the resulting trip will be one leaving you with a lot of pieces to pick Up.
Happy Trails.
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5:24 pm
This article was full of right wing hatred. Jesus would be ashamed of you.
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8:29 pm
Okay. Some things need to be cleared up here. When you described the instruments and sound sytems that both Phish and the Grateful Dead use, you described them as the “lowest quality acoustical instruments pumped through a sound system purchased at a toy store.” In all fairness, nothing could be farther from the truth. It is a clear fact that both bands utilize the most advanced sound systems available in the world today. You couldn’t touch these systems without hundreds of thousands of dollars. If you weren’t aware, the Grateful Dead are responsible for the invention of stereo sound in a live setting. They first achieved this with the now famous “wall of sound.”
Now that we are clear on the utilization of sound systems of the highest quality, lets very quickly touch upon gear. Both Jerry Garcia and Trey Anastasio were, and are in the case of Trey, sound fanatics. They only played guitars that were custom built and cost well into the five figure range. The instruments are functional works of art of the highest quality.
And as for the rest of your essay…I couldn’t agree more;)
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1:55 pm
An interesting perspective, coming from a guy who lists Jersey Shore as a facorite TV show on his facebook page! Sorry if someone else pointed this out in an earlier post but I don’t really have enough time between work and family to read through all these redundant perseverations. Some of us have jobs.
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2:07 pm
Yes, I am aware that I misspelled the word favorite. No, I do not smoke weed.
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4:45 am
WATCH OUT!!! The crazy acid heads are coming to town. They’ll kill us all with free hugs. God help us all.
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8:18 pm
OxyCOTTON? lol…
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9:25 pm
You’re all morons. Except for the trolls.
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9:34 pm
i have never read a more inaccurate, presumptuous, and hateful article in my life. i cannot believe people like you still exist in this world. you’ll never learn though. i’m hopeful for this world though, all you backwards, barbaric christian conservatives will all be dead within 30 years, only then can we build a better planet.
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7:09 am
To me, the look, sound, and smell a lot more like Jesus than the patrons of this site.
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7:10 am
To me, they look, sound, and smell a lot more like Jesus than the patrons of this site.
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10:45 am
You are a babbling IDIOT!
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2:35 pm
So you all know this is a satire site right?
http://www.google.ca/search?q=christwire&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=Palemoon:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a
Some of you better stay away from The Onion or your heads will explode.
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7:01 pm
Your lack of knowledge on anything related to hippies is betrayed by your attacks on a band known as, “The Phish.”
Serious journalists do research, you know!
Pathetic.
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7:45 pm
Good gods. Are there really so many gullible people out here on the InterRange? IT’S A JOKE, NIMRODS.
How could you miss that?
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7:47 pm
What’s especially funny is all the hateful enraged “Christians” who leap to defend the obvious parody of their own hatred and bigotry. What is it about being a right-wing fundie that makes one completely immune to irony, satire, and a basic sense of humor?
Please do continue spewing nonsense, though. I have a big bag of popcorn all ready.
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9:21 pm
Dear Mr Billings,
Your article is inspiring and truly represents the experiences I have had with self acclaimed hippies. Their approach is subtle and their reaction to conformity is strong. They are not welcome in modern society, nor can they demonstrate a true contribution to society. They are professional tax evaders and true benefit thieves. They disguise their agenda’s with progression, education and environmentalism but lack moral and legal compass. I just fired one today who refused to come to work because he had an issue with using gas to get to the workplace. His response was astonishing! They also find any reason to sue someone, bit lack the finances or capital wealth to be sued and so don’t obey the law.
In short, hippies are something that should be disregarded in society. They are a bit like wounded gazelles waiting to be eaten up by a lion or pigeons sitting in a puddle of sewage and spending their entire time worrying about the aspirations of an eagle.
I have posted your article on my facebook post and hope it inspires others to realize their true colors.
Peter
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8:16 am
I think it’s amazing how people can be so pathetic to post an article about a group of people they clearly know nothing about. I am not a hippie and the hippies that I do know are nothing like that. I have to say it’s disgusting to single out ONE group of people for taking drugs and being against war when there are so many other people out there. Sorry to tell you but it’s not just hippies that masturbate, have multiple sex partners, believe in a gaia or are gay. You are a fascist and ignorant and need to grow up and stop putting others down because they don’t live that same way as you. Get over yourself because your way of living is NOT the only way.
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3:42 am
some hippies may smoke weed but some christian’s gave us burning women on sticks and the dark ages oh and the nazis were christian i know who id rather spend time with
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3:46 am
BAAHAHA! ya got me nice one lol
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9:32 pm
Sounds like another balding man pissed off at those with excessive amounts hair.
In all honestly though I’m still not sure if this article is just pulling my leg…. People believe this shit? I didn’t know it was still possible to have so many misconceptions on ones ‘enemy’ in the age of interwebz.
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11:15 pm
dangerous socialist agenda? how can you even use the word christ without believing in a worldwide equality revolution!?!? lsd is the christian sacrament, and if you have chewed a piece of dry grass and read any even single sentance of the bible, you may then understand the tone, you will understand that that is not only the original motivation for writing the bible, and why spiritual centers once did develop in humans, Christ and the apostales got served up like popes with their grass extracts using early alchemy. LSD is the only way not to be completly colonized, everything you do by users of hard drugs, and this happens by using it more over time. that is not why the hippies started making drugs, but the hard stuff existed beside inferior acid that some kids made in the 60′s and THAT IS WHY DRUGS WERE EVER MADE ILLEGAL! it was easier to have sex with people you didn’t care about on new acid that their parents were not on for decades and longer and longer, hippies are stupid child scum anyway, but how can you say this article was not written by a klan wizard? there are no native sacraments allowed at klan meetings and even in spite of the first amendment of religious freedom, sacraments of all religion are illegal, even for the chemical priest establishment and those liscenced by rite of birth to make them. this article says it best about what the kkk did to a place by taking everyone’s souls away and playing cancer vampire while pretending to be square devils masquerading as christians. the united states are a place where the natives believe that if you ever come down from psychedelics as a white person you will be apprehended, deported or killed..crafted to outrage our most basic moral instincts. It (kkk, I dont care if they are talking about the person who wrote this article or the hippies, they are one and the same) celebrates an elite form of hedonism so sickening(capitalism without equality and using money for things like food and not sharing the food supply equally.) that one imagines the deepest pits of hell couldn’t possibly be more terrifying (than feeling another square rape you with bearing their klancer weight of the universe by walking by or merely glancing at them in a publlic place). Children have long been cursed into lifelong spirals of wanton sexuality (because the kkk took their souls away) and extreme political fanaticism after being exposed to this sort of experience (of reading fascist junk written by the kkk as if it were not even masquerading as christian).
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10:07 am
This is absolutely absurd. This article is COMPLETELY based on opinion, with no FACTS what-so-ever! Now dont get me wrong everybody is entitled to an opinion but dont present it as factual! Its funny how these people who claim to “LOVE” and are against “hatred” are always the FIRST to bash anybody who doesn’t follow there norms. They spew hatred riddled with lies, it is slanderous and downright wrong! I doubt the writer has any experience with what hes writing. Dont get me wrong I’m not denying that there are negative things present in the “hippie” jam-music scene but is there not good and bad present in everything? Do we not see some pastor/priest who has raped a child under the pretense of Christ EVERY WEEK! If anything this is the most disgusting sick thing out there today! I have never seen a “hippie” try to “lure” a child into drug use sex etc. like this article says BUT I DO SEE PRIESTS TRICKING CHILDREN INTO SEXUAL ACTS BY MAKING THEM BELIUEVE IT IS OK BECAUSE THEY REPRESENT GOD! But im not goin to go and say EVERY priest is involved in these acts but you will certainly say every “hippie” is a drug’using masturbating fool (which is absurd…where are you getting thiis masturbating thing from? Ive never seen anything like this! SOUNDS TO ME LIKE MAYBE ITS ONE OF YOUR FANTASYS!!) I can say so much more but I know it will be lost because anytime I have tried to have an intillectual or intelligent debatew with these people it is impossible! They are so close-minded! All I can say is everybody different, everybody dresses, acts a certain way, etc for different reasons, IT IS ABSURD TO PLACE ANYBODY INCLUDING HIPPIES POR CHRISTIANS IN A BOX AND SAY THEY ARE ALL THIS WAY OR THAT!! But speaking from expereince most of these people just like jam-music (which by the way is usually played by clasically trained musicians that studied at berkely etc. and play some chord pregressions etc. that most musicians cant even dream of AND THEY DO IT ON THE SPOT WITH OUT PRACTICE A LOT POF TIMES) OTHER ‘hippies’ that are more into the culture are usually about ‘love’ not hate as was said. AND WHEN I9S AY LOVE I DONT MEAN AN ORGY (BECAUSE I KNOW THATS WHAT THIS PERV IS THINKING) I MEAN LOVE AS IN ACCEPTANCE OF ALL AROUND US, HELPING OUT THOSE IN NEED WITHOUT EXPECTING ANYTHING IN RETURN (MOST OF THESE SHOWS HAVE DONATION BOOTHS ETC. THAT DONATE TO CAUSE OF ALL DIFFEEREBHT KINDS), THEY BELIEVE IN BEING ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN POLITICS (VOTING ETC.) INSTEAD OF JUST STANDING ON THE SIDELINES, THEY BELIEVE IN LIVING A ‘GREEN’ SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE (RECYCLING ETC.), MANY ARE RELIGOUS OR SPIRITUAL DESPITE POPULAR BELIEVE, SO ON AND SO FORTH! Some may use substances (marijuana/alcohol, etc. but not all and they certainly arent trying to lure others into it or trying to get your kids hooked this is absurd also!!!I hope this can get through to the writer and others who make assumptions about a vast group of people without real knowledge of there culture! If you were any kind of good Christian you would try to engage these people and find out what good aspects they have and if you see these negative things you speak of maybe try to help them! MUCH LOVE TO ALL I HOPE WE CAN ALL LEARN SOME ACCEPTANCE OR WE WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO HAVE PEACE IN OUR HEARTS
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12:53 pm
Can this thread. Too many hysterical heathens with stupid arguments. Bin them all and take your guidance from Jesus.
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7:32 am
Hi
Just read a couple of your articles – and read in one of your anwsers that you consider yourself part of a normal group of christians, and not one particular individual with some pretty outrageous ideas…
Now my big guess is that you are pretty much the first and only christian to have found and used this fantastic thing called the INTERNET, since most here obviously, not hate you, but trys to make you see the err in your way of trampeling on minority groups, socalled hatemongering.
But off course, I see – to you – they (or am I part of we, since I question you?) are probably grouping up on you – to make you feel bad, and thus in good faith continue your righteous crusade on minorities!
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4:03 pm
I love the fact that the most poorly rated comments are that of the author. Helps sum up the entire article.
Changing the subject for just a second, Mr Billings, you quote:
“We had a righteous cause in the Middle East to defeat the terrorists bent on destroying our civilization.”
So then why did America invade Iraq (a country that posed no threat to anyone) when the ‘terrorists’ in question were from Saudi Arabia?
Oh yes, of course! Silly me! It’s because the Saudi Arabian Royal family and the big business dynasties (including the Bin Laden family) own 9% of the U.S. economy. Something to the tune of $800 billion. If the Saudi’s pulled out, Uncle Sam would be bent over and sodomized, with the video being posted on you tube.
PS: Have you ever actually met a hippie?
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2:20 pm
What a load of crap! im sorry you can’t see it, but it’s people like you! that makes this world a bad place.
religious nonsens. Bah!
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6:37 pm
What can we do? These “people” are obviously evil and should be killed. We cant have them around our children. Go out and murder these hippies before its to late.
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7:05 pm
You have the intelligence of a roof shingle.
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6:46 pm
This article makes me want to throw a massive orgy. Anyone down for some internet fun?
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8:07 pm
Is this a farce? If not I must wonder what religion this fool represents, and represents poorly. Well thanks for the full hearted belly laugh at the cost of your idiocy. If you should post anymore articles make sure I know so I can laugh my butt off.
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8:49 pm
dude you misspelled oxycotin.
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9:30 pm
Sir, after reading this ignorant Article I must say your definition of “hippies” and the method you portray your Christian faith and beliefs are WRONG. I am 16 in high school and I have been born into a Czech American family of strong Catholics. I am Catholic myself and as I have gotten older and have gained more knowledge on religion I now see that a few of the old Catholic beliefs are the beliefs such as saying that Catholicism is THE religion and that it is above other religions. My hometown church was for a long time occupied by an older priest that taught the older traditional ways of Catholicism and most of what he talked about in his homilies was ignorant bullshit. Topics such as “Catholicism is THE religion” and endless crap on what people should not do so they follow God to heaven…….nobody ever talked about what we SHOULD do! Now, we have a younger priest that was newly ordained and has brought many new methods of teaching the Catholic faith and to respect other religions, which is the one of the crucial keys for religions anyways. our church has replaced some of the hymns with more modern music with a band (which I play guitar in) instead of the traditional organ and believe me everyone is more positively involved in the Mass. Am I, by your definition, a hippie by looking at Christianity and pointing out ignorant flaws in our religion? In the older days of the church, yes it was something you just did not do or you were killed, but everyone realized that was going no where and so new ways were adopted.
Now, on to the hippie part. On my wall I have a framed picture of The Beatles’s Abbey Road and below that, a U2 poster; my 2 favorite bands. The Beatles were a huge part of the 60′s revolution and changed music forever. If you have ever listened to their songs or the band member’s songs such as Imagine, Come Together, Here Comes The Sun, etc. etc, you will notice that none of their songs or beliefs reflect absolutely nothing about what you have portrayed these hippies to be and are definitely not pro Soviet as Adam Nelson mentioned. U2 uses their fame (they are number 3 on Rolling Stine’s top bands of all time list) to let the public know about topics such as starvation in Africa, false imprisonment, racism, and human rights of people of ALL religions. The members of U2 are not hippies. They have an affection and awareness for their environment and the human race.
Am I a hippie if I decide to own a house with solar panels because the electrical bill is too damn high or that I want to use an alternative energy that is everywhere and comes from the most powerful force in our solar system aka the sun? Am I a hippie if i choose to drive a car that uses less gas per mile in order to conserve a non renewable resource and my own money? Am I a hippie for believing that all religions have striking similarities that can be found in their beliefs? Am I a hippie for not believing that Christianity may not be THE religion to look up to?
Before you say “Yes! hes a hippie!”, let me tell you about myself. I am a hard working individual who is working hard to one day serve this country in the U.S. Air Force. I am in The Civil Air Patrol, helping my community, and I am active in many sports. I have NEVER touched drugs, weed, or even alcohol and never plan to in the future. I do not find comfort in saying “God is in control” because obviously in this world he is not. People who believe this usually get no where and sit around waiting for stuff to be handed to them. No. You must work to accomplish your goals. You must answer your own prayers many times.
In a harsh way, your expressed ideas seem very much like Hitler’s point of view on the Jews. Just blame everything on one group of people and all your problems are solved! But of course, factors such as believing Christianity is better than other religions is what the Nazis went by to create a “perfect world”. Reflect your personal views before ignorant people start to believe your articles and history repeats itself.
Brandon Canik
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8:38 am
I thought christians were tolerant. Anyway fuck you! Fuck reagan! And fuck conservatism! There’s a little thing called FREEDOM that lets people dress however they want and think freely, without a need for mind control or an inexistant god. Fuck your ignorance.
Socialism and tolerance is the path to freedom and equality.
“Only people that have no hope in humanity need to turn to a god”
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10:26 am
Hats off, sir, you are truly an utter crackpot.
Enjoy preaching to the converted, as I’m sure your subjective and prurient diatribe is unlikely to persuade or even inform anyone who’s not already convinced of the same ‘truths’ as yourself. A builder of bridges and lover of neighbours you are not, sir, but then when was fundamentalist Christianity ever about tolerance? Forgive me for saying this (and as a Christian, I believe you must), but this kind of rhetoric has more in common with Jihadist/Wahhabist Islam than ‘enlightened western intellectualism’, as it were.
I am so glad that you and your ideological ilk will have been outbred by us scum of the earth within a few generations; or, if you prevail, the whole “drill baby drill!” and “Might is Right” resource-war thinking will have brought around the complete or near-total destruction of the human race by war, disease and starvation within the next 30 years – in which case I will actually be able to hunt fundamentalists for food with a longbow, mmm.
All the best to you and yours, I salute you from my burning pit of hashish – may the Fear of God be in your heart, and may you know true peace when it stops beating.
Yours sincerely (and see you on the frontlines),
a top-tier-educated, employed and hard-working, morally decent, religiously secure, unrepentantly drug-dependent, musical, poetic, patriotic certified genius (ah yes, and by your definitions a complete and utter ‘hippy’).
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6:18 am
Wow, where does all that hate come from? WWJD? He’d embrace the peace loving hippies. Amazing how far from decent Christian values of love one another has gone in the conservative Christian movement. I for one am glad that my own moral code, based on basic human decency not a magic big brother in the sky watching my every move, is superior to what is spouted out by the Christian conservatives these days.
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9:21 pm
hahahhahaahahahaahahahahaaaaa!!!
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2:31 pm
I hope you aren’t serious, because giving false reports is a sin in the bible.
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5:30 pm
They still exist….WE still exist….because we haven’t seen a better way to live yet…..
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5:41 pm
Yes, it’s true Bill. Decent Americans have never come up with a practical solution to the hippie problem. We just don’t have the prison space to hold them and nations like Mexico don’t want them either.
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6:41 pm
BAWW I DISLIKE THESE PEOPLE SO CLEARLY THEY SHOULD BE IN JAIL
Why are you so butthurt though? Did your altar boy threaten to tattle?
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6:05 pm
YOU AS A CHRISTIAN JUDGE HIPPIES. What would Jesus say? God Bless you and may I continue being a hippie who honors the Lord and gives back to the earth. Your so involved with the good book that you forget to live in the here and now. Prejudice is so out of style. Mind your own religion and this planet does not belong to Christians only. Thank God <3
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8:09 pm
As a United States Marine, it saddens me to see that there are people still like this, and we protect them. they sound no better than the terrorists we fight to protect you. We fight for your freedom, have it, we fight for your free speech, religion and ect.. but such hatred and bigotry only makes you just like the terrorists who try to take our freedom away. Yes our country was founded by christians, but that doesnt make it the best and only right religion. remember, your own descriptions of jesus had long hair and drank wine and he was a Jew.
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1:21 am
I’m not going to write a long article about how stupid and ignorant you are, because people have already dine that. But I will say this and only this, then you will never hear from me again
La Vie Boheme, bitch
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2:49 am
Of course you are, until you get so high by injecting massive amounts of marijuana laced LSD into your veins, then you will forget it all. You are a true “Hippie” Soldier.
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3:08 am
Do you know anything about drugs, at all? You basically just combined three different types of drugs, all because you aren’t going to be bothered to learn something.
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7:33 pm
This article is so ridiculous that I honestly thought it was a joke. In fact, it is so ridiculous that I am not even going to comment on it. BTW, it is Phish.. not The Phish.
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4:07 pm
I would like you to know how much you have offended me. All due respect, you do not know what you are talking about. what you are saying is untrue. I am a sophomore at Green Mountain College in Vermont. This is a place labeled a hippie, tree-hugger school. I identify myself as both of those things and many more. My school is on the top 5 Princeton review. I have never done drugs and have no desire to. More over, I know many people who do that have much higher GPA’s than I, some 4.0′s.
I am Wiccan. I DO NOT worship the devil, in fact, I do not even believe in him. I do worship nature because it is the reason for our existence. I do no harm to anyone.
I do not actually enjoy Phish (not The Phish) and prefer another wide variety of music. I go to concerts not to do drugs, but instead to hear music.
Before you begin trash-talking people that you know nothing about, you should probably meet them, and not stereotype them.
You have seriously offended me and hundreds of other people just at my school. I cannot imagine how many worldwide. In addition, these are just a few of the point I could make about this article.
I believe that if there is a hell and you do not change YOUR ways, you will be going there.
I sincerely wish you the best. Peace be with you and may you find the optimal life path for you.
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3:54 pm
Did Eric Cartman write this???
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